and my supervisors boss came in asked who brought this peice of crap in and then told my supervisor to find me something better so i ended up with a new computer with a supposed 40 gig hardrive (one i brought in only had 8) runs win xp and has 4 usb ports (my old one had none) and best bit was they gave it to me for free ^.^

although i now have 3 spots to put ear-phones theres a port in my screen theres a port in the computer itself and then theres a port and this is like the wierdest spot ever in my DVD rom spot

also wit this newer comp i can now use the flash player 8 to make my own animations ^.^ so any one else who uses that or a betetr verson maybe you could give me some tips on how to make better animations / useful short cut keys / where to map them I have new keyframe mapped to the 0 next the the right arrow key

Wait so you brought in an ancient computer to get a medieval one? Eh not bad since you got it for free I suppose. But you should probably try to upgrade to flash 10 since that's where it's at now. If that's what you're even on about.

Um , I am sorry I wish I could help but I don't understand what you are saying.

He was given a computer


It has many audio jacks


He wants to know about flash player shortcut keys

Some of easiest shortcut keys are probably the ones your gonna use the most

Control + J = change document/stage size
control + q = free transform tool (use with a combination of the "shift" key to scale proportionality)
F5 = makes a new frame.
shift + f5 = deletes frames
f6 = new keyframe
f9 = brings up the action script panel
control + return = preview the animation in flash player

i ment user customized commands for those that actually use it

+ flash player 8 is the verson of animator program i have installed (full verson non trial ^.^)

i have new keyframe asiigned to numpad 0 (it takes image thast there makes new frame but then i can move that image slightly and repeat 640 frames later i may or may not have 1 mins worth of animation ^.^)

but i was hoping for soem tips to make way better animation then a fixed ball sliding sideways or a badly drawn arm waving and then turning into dots / wider arm not very good at making teh things i wnat to move slightly from not deteriorating / gaining a new shape

I'd probably give an antique like that away for free too, if someone wanted it.

the one they gave me isnt an antique :/

also great news finnaly decided to pull out the hardive to see its size

not a 40 GIG

its a 160 GIG !

also at my co-op windows XP is the main operating system they install and 7 if it can support vista

They upgraded you to XP. Congrats!

But WTF.. 8GB hard drive? That machine must have been over 10 years old.

I happen to try to get an antique server right now as well. We were throwing out a whole bunch yesterday so I am trying to get my hands on one......for free.
Intel Pentium 4
2GB DDR
2x1Gbps Ethernet ports
1U form factor
2x 160GB IDE drives

When I started video editing, we were working on 2GB and 4GB hard drives. 8GB would have been a godsend.

You can't imagine the kind of painstakingly complex process we had to use to edit feature length films on those tiny drives.

Only one of them is for your headphones or speakers. One should be speakers, one should be for a microphone, and the other for a line-in device, such as a guitar.

When I was in high school we used to do computer maintenance on 286's so I don't find it that strange but given how extremely cheap 500GB hard drives are nowadays and the amount of space today's videos take up..