Building our Flash slideshow animation, we will import the images to certain frames on the timeline.

In the last tutorial, you made the rollover buttons for the navigational menu of your site. Now we will import a sound clip into your Flash movie and have the sound play when the button is clicked.

The Event Library is the place where all your videos are listed, initially organized by storage location. It is also the place for organizing your video footage by “Events” and an event can be anything you wish. iMovie also has a Keyword system for tagging video clips.

In iMovie you start building your project from raw footage. Your raw footage can be imported in to the Event Library directly from your camera. If already on your hard drive it should be listed in the Event Library.

This book by Colin Smith shares with you his Flash secrets in sixty of the best examples of Flash effects. But do not panic if you are not familiar with Flash ActionScript. Believe it or not, Smith keeps the ActionScript to a minimum.

How to use an open source document class in your Flash project.

In the last tutorial we created a button symbol template that we will now use as the starting point for making more buttons. Starting from this template, we will make the individual buttons for the pages of your site.

If you have been following along in the series, you are now ready to create menu buttons for your Flash website. We will create a template button that we will later use as the foundation to create your rollover menu buttons.

If you have been following the tutorials, you are now ready to add the text to the individual webpages. One nice thing about Flash is that you can load (or import) external text/HTML files into a Flash movie. See how.

In the last tutorial, we took a look at the various options you have when importing vector, shape, text and layer styled Photoshop images in to Flash Professional CS3. Now we will look at the rest of the options for the Flash import feature.