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Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder 2.2 - User Guide and FAQ

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Flash banner tutorial :

1) Go to the layout tab and set the movie dimensions to 468x60 or any other banner dimensions.
2) Select a background color or add your own background picture.
3) Make sure compression is ticked
4) Set the loop to the desired number of loops which is normally infinity.
5) Go to the Type tab and select Banner
6) Go to the Text tab (This is where the actual building of the banner needs to be done)
7) Click on Add Item and enter the desired text in the text 1 area.
8) To create a second and third line of the banner animation, click twice on Add Item and enter the desired text in the respective text areas.

Now click on Generate and Display and you will see that you have created a rough banner animation without any effect or font properties.

To assign a text effect to the text of text area 1, click on text 1, click on the text effect tab and select any of the desired text effect.

Do the same for the two other text lines. First activate the required text and then enter the respective text in the text area.

Click again on Generate and Display and you will have you have created your first basic banner.

9) To position your effect. Activate the required text line. Click on the position tab and set the desired Top and Left positions.
10) Each text can be set to freeze for a certain amount of time. To do this Activate the required text line and click on the timing tab and set the desired freeze time for each text line. (Default is 10, which is 1 second)

Finally, we will set the font properties of the text. This is the most complicated part but also one of the most unique features of the application as it allows you literally to assign a different font zones each font zone may consist of font, color, size, to any character!
11) To assign a Font style to a selection of your text click on the Font style tab:
12) Click on "Font style". Your entire text is automatically assigned the "default" font zone.
13) In the text area, select the part of your text you want to assign different properties by highlighting it (click and drag your mouse over the text)
14) Create a new font zone for your highlighted text by clicking on the green plus symbol "+"
15) Select the font properties you want to assign your new font zone
16) To confirm, make sure the newly created zone is activated and click on the blue tick symbol " " to assign it to your selected text.

To see the Final result, click on "Generate and Display" on the right.

Flash intro tutorial :

1) Go to the layout tab and set the movie dimensions to 400x 400 or any other dimensions.
2) Select a background color or add your own background picture.
3) Make sure compression is ticked
4) Set the loop to the desired number of loops which is normally infinity.
5) Go to the Type tab and select Intro
6) Go to the Text tab (This is where the actual building of the intro should be done)
7) Click on Add Item and enter the desired text in the text 1 area.
8) To create a second and third line of the intro animation click twice on Add Item and enter the desired text in the respective text areas.

Now click on Generate and Display and you will see that you have created a rough intro animation without any effect or font properties. The problem is that all the sentences are overlapping each other, as for each text you must set it's unique X and Y position, incoming time and duration.

To set the position of each effect click on the Text position tab. Make sure you activate text 1, text, etc.
Fore text 1 set the position to top=100 left=10
Fore text 2 set the position to top=200 left=10
Fore text 3 set the position to top=300 left=10

To set the Text effect click on the Text effect tab. Make sure you activate text 1, text, etc and assign each text it's own effect.

Click on Generate and Display and you will have your first basic intro up and running.

The next step will be to change the time of appearance (now they all appear at once)

To do this click on the Timing tab. Make sure you activate text 1, text, etc.

Fore text 1 set the incoming time to 0
Fore text 2 set the incoming time to 20
Fore text 3 set the incoming time to 40

Click on Generate and Display and you will see that the sentences are appearing all on a different time.

By setting the Freeze time you will be able to set the number of seconds that the text will be freeze on the screen before it disappears

To make text 1 freeze for 4 seconds, activate text 1 and set the freeze time to 40

Click on Generate and Display Now you will be able to create creative animations without limitations. The last part of this tutorial is to assign the fonts, colors and size to the text.

To do this click on Font styles.

Make sure you have selected the desired text 1, text 2, etc.

Click on "Font style". Your entire text is automatically assigned the "default" font zone.

In the text area, select the parts of your text you want to assign different properties by highlighting it (click and drag your mouse over the text)

Create a new font zone for your highlighted text by clicking on the green plus symbol "+"

Select the font properties you want to assign your new font zone

To confirm, make sure the newly created zone is activated and click on the blue tick symbol " " to assign it to your selected text.

Click on Generate and Display to see the font changes. Now assign some different font properties to your text. Note that each character can be assigned a different property thru the font zones.

Frequently Asked Questions - Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder

Q: How do I save the settings for each animation?
A: It automatically saves all data entered in the application as a template. It's recommended that, for each new animation you want to create, you first create a new template. To do so, click on the "New" button above the "Generate and Display" button. If you want, you can highlight the template name and enter your own unique name. Now when you close the application all the data for this specific animation will be saved under that template name.
Q: I'm receiving an error when importing MP3 files?
Sometimes when importing MP3 files you may receive an error message such as Invalid MP3 Header or Wrong Format. This happens because Flash tend to be rather sensitive about the meta info in your sound file. Luckily there is rather quick fix to solve this.

1) First go to http://www.winamp.com/player/free.php and download the "Lite" version, a free MP3 player
2) Install Winamp and open the application
3) Open the song that you would like to convert in winamp
4) Click on "Toggle Play List Editor"
5) Select and highlight the title of the song by right clicking on it and select "view file info".
6) Then remove the check box under "ID3v2 Tag" and make sure only the "ID3v1 Tag" box is marked.
7) Click on update
8) Insert the MP3 file into any of the Amara Applications

That's all!
Q: Can I use spaces between the characters of the file name?
Preferable not. as not all web servers are supporting spaces in file names. Instead use a dash such as "my-flash-animation.swf"
Q: I get an invalid picture error when rendering the animation?
Please make sure you DO NOT use "progressive" Jpeg files. Flash doesn't support progressive Jpeg files. Some Paint applications such as PaintShop Pro have progressive as a default save setting.
Q: I use Frames and my animation does appear in the wrong frame?
This happens when you entered the wrong Frame Name. Please check in your HTML code what the correct frame name is. Normally it's something such as Mainframe or Mainframe or mainframe. Be exact, if the frame name uses an uppercase; enter it as well in the target URL.

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