1. First, open the flash animation software. After we create a new flash file, click the "Insert" item pointed by the arrow. In the pop-up drop-down list menu, we click the "Insert" item pointed by the arrow. New Component (N)..." will pop up a dialog box.

2. In the pop-up dialog box, we write the name of a component. In order to find it easily in the library, select the component type as "Movie Clip", and then click the "OK" button to create a new one. component and enter this component.

3. We click the rectangle tool button pointed by the arrow to draw a rectangle on this stage.

4. We have used the rectangle tool to draw a gradient green rectangle.

5. We insert a keyframe at frame 30. To insert a keyframe, you need to right-click on the frame where the keyframe is inserted. In the pop-up drop-down menu, click and select "Insert Keyframe" ”, you can insert a key frame in this frame.

6. Let’s click the selection tool pointed by the arrow to select this rectangle and make an animation to better demonstrate the benefits of component reuse.

7. After we select this rectangle, click on the paint bucket tool pointed by the arrow, and change the fill color of the rectangle to red, so that we can make a tween animation to better show the changes in the graphics.

8. Right-click the mouse between 1 and 30 frames. In the pop-up drop-down menu, we select "Create Tween Animation" to create an animation.

9. After we complete the animation of this component, click on scene 1 pointed by the arrow to switch to scene 1.

10. We can see the component of our newly created video clip in the library. We can drag it directly to the stage, and then use the Ctrl+Enter key combination to generate a video to watch.