Chapter 9 VR
The VR 360 document maps the texture onto a spherical surrounding, whereas the VR Panorama document maps the texture onto a cylindrical surrounding.
What is the difference between the VR 360 and VR Panorama document types?
Process of drawing while referencing preceding images.
What is onion skinning?
A component in Animate is a reusable, packaged module that adds a particular capability to an Animate document.
What is a component?
The skin is the combination of functionality and appearance of video controls, such as Play, Fast Forward, and Pause buttons.
What is a skin for a video?
Sound Sync refers to the way a sound is triggered and played.
What does Sound Sync refer to?
Virtual Reality refers to the use of computer technology to create simulated environments.
What does VR refer to?
Equirectangular images are twice as wide as they are high, and they make things look distorted.
What is an equirectangular image?
Scenes are separate timelines that you can use to organize our project. Scenes will play linearly from the first to the last.
What are Scenes?
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What is the correct video format to use in an HTML5 Canvas document?
Use a blank keyframe if you want to stop a sound that is set to Stream sync.
How can you stop a sound that is set to Stream sync?
In the New Document screen, click the Advanced category, choose VR 360 (Beta) in the Platforms section, and then click create.
How do you create a texture layer in a VR 360 OR VR Panorama document?
Kinematics is the study of the motion of bodies/systems of bodies.
What is kinematics?
The waveform appears to end at around 240 frames, or about 10 seconds.
When does the waveform appear to end at?
A video component lets you control which video plays, whether the video plays automatically, and other aspects of the playback.
What does a video component do?
Open the Edit Envelope dialog box, and then drag the time slider.
How can you edit the length of a sound clip?
The VR View panel provides an interactive preview of how graphics, symbol instances, animations, and images in texture layers are projected.
What is the VR View panel used for?
Beta means the software is still in testing mode.
What does Beta mean?
Masks, layer parenting, 3D rotation and translation, and the Camera tool aren’t available and are dimmed in the interface.
What 5 things aren't available and are dimmed in the interface?
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The FLVPlayback component is a special widget that is used on the Stage to play your external video. It allows you to keep the video separate from your Animate file.
What is the FLVPlayback?
Stream ties the sound to the timeline so that you can easily synchronize animated elements to the sound.
Why does Stream tie the sound to the timeline?
VR 360 documents should always be at a 2:1 width to height ratio to accommodate equirectangular images or graphics.
What width and height ratio should VR 360 documents be?
A panoramic projection is a wide image that captures more of the field of view from left to right.
What is a panoramic projection?
Edits made in the Edit Envelope dialog box are non destructive, which means that shortening an audio clip doesn’t discard any of the data.
What does it mean when edits are made in the Edit Envelope dialog box?
A codec (compression-decompression) is a method computers use to compress a video file to save space and then to decompress it to play it back.
What is a codec?
You can import several types of sound files into Animate, among them MP3. AIFF, and WAV files, which are 3 common sound formats.
What are the 3 common sound formats?