Intermediate Flash CS4 Training (3 days)

Intermediate Flash CS4 Training Course Overview

In this intermediate Flash training course, students will build upon their existing Flash skills to learn to create more advanced and dynamic Flash applications by integrating ActionScript and using some of Flash's more advanced features.

Intermediate Flash CS4 Training Course Goals

• Learn to format dynamically loaded text using HTML, CSS, and nested images.
• Learn to create an ActionScript-driven menu.
• Learn to build a preloader with MovieClipLoader class.
• Learn to add a progressively downloading, multi-track MP3 player.
• Learn to create a video player that allows users to control playback.
• Learn to build a slideshow that loads images and text dynamically.
• Learn to utilize components to create a feedback form.
• Learn to create a Flash plug-in detector.

Intermediate Flash CS4 Training Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Basic knowledge of Flash as taught in our Introduction to Adobe Flash 8 course

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial.

• HTML
• CSS

Intermediate Flash CS4 Training Course Outline

1. Introducing ActionScript
   1. Exploring the lesson file
   2. What is ActionScript?
   3. ActionScript 2.0 or 3.0: Which should you use?
   4. An important note about Publish settings
   5. The Actions panel at work
   6. Standard (default) script editing mode
   7. Using Script Assist
   8. Adding & removing actions
   9. Adding actions to frames
   10. Using stop( )
   11. Using the goto action to navigate the Timeline
   12. Controlling Movie Clip Timelines
   13. Functions
   14. Wrapping up
2. Creating Button Symbols
   1. Working with button symbols
   2. Building buttons
   3. Adding text to a button
   4. Duplicating and modifying buttons
   5. Creating text-based buttons
   6. Creating frame labels for ActionScript
   7. Adding ActionScript: Events and event handlers
   8. Understanding events
   9. Responding to events with event handlers
   10. Tying it all together with event listeners
   11. Linking buttons to specific frames
   12. Adding an event listener to a button
   13. Linking buttons to a web site
   14. Introducing navigateToURL( ) and URLRequest( )
3. Adding Sound to Your Movies
   1. Preparing sound files for Flash
   2. Sample rate and bit depth
   3. Editing your audio
   4. Mono or stereo
   5. Audio file formats
   6. Importing sounds
   7. Placing sounds on the Timeline
   8. Adding sound to your slide show project
   9. Adding the remaining narration
   10. Adding sound effects to buttons
   11. Placing Event sounds on button frames
   12. Controlling sounds
   13. Editing sounds
   14. Trimming sound
   15. Controlling sounds
   16. Repeating and looping sounds
   17. Looping sounds
   18. Introducing the SoundMixer and stopAll( )
   19. More sync menu controls: stop and start
   20. Start sounds
   21. Stop sounds
   22. Sound publishing options
4. Introducing Movie Clips
   1. About movie clips
   2. Creating movie clips Laying the foundation: Your first movie clip
   3. Previewing movie clip animation from the main Timeline
   4. Creating the landing gear Combining movie clips and main Timeline animation
   5. Nesting movie clips
   6. Adding ActionScript to movie clip Timelines
   7. Controlling movie clip playback
   8. Adding some variation to the propellers
   9. Tweening movie clips
   10. Adding a second tween
   11. Combining movie clips for complex animation
   12. Adding filter effects to movie clips
   13. Using the Filters panel
   14. Creating a filter effect
5. Working with Video
   1. Video in Flash: formats and fundamentals
   2. Understanding video
   3. Embedded versus linked video
   4. The Flash Video format
   5. Understanding codecs
   6. Understanding the Adobe Media Encoder
   7. Converting video with the Adobe Media Encoder
   8. Working with embedded video
   9. Adding embedded video to the Timeline
   10. Building controls for embedded video
   11. The Bandwidth Profiler
   12. Working with linked video
   13. Adding cue points in the Adobe Media Encoder
   14. Adding linked video to the Timeline
   15. Working with the FLVPlayback component
6. Delivering Your Final Movie
   1. The publishing process
   2. Publishing to the web
   3. Customizing the Publish settings
   4. CD-ROM delivery
   5. Creating a standalone projector
   6. Make a full-screen projector
   7. Using Export Movie
   8. An overview of FTP
   9. Using Adobe Device Central in Flash

Intermediate Flash CS4 Training Course Materials

Each student will receive a copy of Flash CS4 Digital Classroom Book by Digital Classroom, which will serve as a guide for the class.

Intermediate Flash CS4 Training Course Technical Requirements and Setup Instructions

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