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| Make
a Video Banner Ad in Wildform Flair |
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| Introduction |
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you want to create attention grabbing Flash banners
without knowing Flash? Creating Flash banners
is easy! This tutorial takes you through the
steps of making an interactive Flash banner with
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| Create
a new project |
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the start menu select Create New Project. Label
it “Make A Video Banner”. |
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| Set
the dimensions of your project file |
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this project, set the dimensions of the project
to the dimensions of a conventional banner ad – 468x60 in the Project Toolbar (Under the View -> Toolbars menu). |
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| The dimensions of
your project have now changed. |
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| Change
the background color of your project |
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| Now,
let's change the background color of
the project to black. This can be done in a number
of ways. One way is to select the Master Slide
in the Slide Navigation view. In the Standard Toolbar, select the color fill icon and choose the color black from the dropdown menu. |
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we have selected the Master Slide, every slide
we create in your project will also have a black
background. |
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| Importing
a logo |
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Let's return
to Slide 1 and import
a Wildform logo, which is a Flash (swf) file.
Notice that the imported file is larger than
the project dimensions. Because Flash files are
vector based, we can scale this file without
losing any resolution. To scale this file and
maintain the same proportion of the dimensions,
click on the file, then hold down the shift key
on your keyboard and drag the file to the size
you want (holding the shift key causes the file
to scale proportionally). |
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| To
preview the file, select a play preview button
in the Preview Controls. |
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continue creating the file, return to edit mode
by clicking on the Stop button in the Preview
Palette. |
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| Importing
a video |
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import a video, under the File menu go to the
Import File. |
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| Next
we will select the video file to import. |
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| Because
the video in the banner ad will be small, we
will select a narrowband preset. Select 56k modem
video swf preset. |
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| Now,
we will go to the Video/Audio tab. In the Output video
dimensions, click the Constrain proportions button.
Then click the Video size and SWF boxes and change
the height of your output file to 60. We are
selecting 60 because that is the height of our
project file. |
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Return to the File menu and click the "Encode & Insert" button
in the File tab.
Let's drag the encoded video file to the right side
of your banner. |
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| Creating
animated text |
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Now,
we will add some animated text to the banner.
Under the Tools menu, let's select "Create Text
Effect" |
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| The
Create Text Effect window appears. |
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we will enter the following text in the text
field: "Create Flash, video & presentation
software" |
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| Next,
we will select an effect. In this case, we will select
the "Diffuse Light 1" effect located
in the Fades folder. Let's preview the file in the preview window by
checking the Fit preview to window box above
the effects window. |
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| Next we will change the font and the font size
of the effect. To change the Font click on the
Font button to bring up the Font box. We will
select Tahoma font in size 14, bold and italic. |
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| Now
we will change the color of the text and background.
Click on the Background Fill box in the Movie
section and change the color to black. |
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Click on the Fill box and change the color to
white. Now,
click the Save & Replace button and close
the Create Text Effect window.
We will place the effect wherever we want it on the project.
Click the Play Preview button to review. |
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| Adding
audio to your banner |
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add audio, let's return to the Import File under the
File menu and select an audio file. The
Import Video/Audio/Images window comes up. Select
an Audio Only Flash SWF preset. Click
Encode & Insert. Our audio file will now be converted to the
Flash format. |
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Close
the Import window.
The audio file now appears on the timeline. Click
Play Preview again to listen. |
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| Moving
your files on the timeline |
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| To make your text effect begin
after your audio, let's move our text effect
on the timeline. Here, we will drag it to frame
30. |
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| Now
click play to review your work. |
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| Exporting
your project |
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| When
we are finished with your project, we may export
your file (File menu -> File Export). |
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| Before
quitting Wildform Flair let's save our
Project. Saving our project file (.wpz file)
saves all your project settings, so we can continue
to work on our project at a later time. |
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