Flash Animation Research:
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is an authoring tool that you can use to create presentations, applications and other content that responds to user interaction.


Projects created in Flash are known as SWF applications even if they only contain minimal animations.


Vector graphics use less memory and storage then others, but they come up smaller as they are represented by mathematical formulas.


A symbol is a graphic, move, button clip that can create manually. A symbol can include artwork that we can import from another applications.


In order to create an application in Flash professional you have to start by creating graphics or elements then adding media elements like video and audio.


The first of the five parts that builds up to the user interface is 'The Stage'. This is like a canvas that shows you the area that you can play with when placing on your graphics. 
The second part is 'The Timeline' and the third is called 'The Tools Panel' this contains the use of tools to use to select objects.


To publish a FLA file you select File, Publish. After this it will then compress