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Comprehensive Flash CS4 Training (5 days)


This Flash class is delivered for private groups onsite at your offices or a location of your choice. It can also be delivered via the Internet for geographically distributed staff.

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Comprehensive Flash CS3 Training Course Overview

In this comprehensive Adobe Flash training class, students receive a comprehensive introduction to Flash MX CS4 and to ActionScript.

Comprehensive Flash CS3 Training Course Goals

  • Become familiar with the Flash workspace
  • Learn to create graphics in Flash
  • Learn to work with text in Flash
  • Learn to create buttons and movie clips in Flash
  • Learn to create animations in Flash
  • Learn to work with Behaviors to create interactivity in Flash
  • Learn to add sound to Flash movies
  • Learn to create forms with Flash components
  • Learn to publish Flash documents for different players
  • Learn the basics of ActionScript
  • Learn to work with event handlers
  • Understand the hierarchy of timelines
  • Learn to work with target paths
  • Learn to work with ActionScript's built-in objects
  • Learn to write functions
  • Learn to write flow control statements in ActionScript
  • Learn to create forms for passing data in and out of Flash

Comprehensive Flash CS3 Training Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial.

  • HTML

Comprehensive Flash CS3 Training Course Outline

  1. Flash CS4 Jumpstart
    1. What is Flash?
    2. About Flash Player
    3. Flash file types
    4. Creating a new document
    5. Setting up your new document 2
    6. Saving your Flash document
    7. Opening documents
    8. The Flash workspace
    9. The Stage and work area
    10. The Flash Tools panel
    11. The Property Inspector
    12. Panels and panel groups
    13. The Timeline
    14. Practicing with the Flash tools
    15. The drawing and selection tools in action Using gradient and color tools
    16. Animation in action
    17. Getting help
    18. Support forums
    19. Moving forward
  2. Getting Started with the Drawing Tools
    1. Drawing in Flash
    2. Using the Merge Drawing model
    3. Creating artwork in Merged Drawing mode
    4. Working with Drawing Objects
    5. Putting it all together
    6. Using the Line tool
    7. Using the Pen tool
    8. Using the Add and Delete Anchor Point tools
    9. Using the Combine Objects menu
    10. Using the Primitive tools (Smart Shapes)
    11. Using the Oval Primitive tool
    12. The Rectangle Primitive tool
    13. Adding text to your artwork
    14. Adding filters
    15. Working with colors
    16. Getting set up
    17. Creating gradients
    18. Using opacity with gradient colors
    19. Creating custom colors
    20. Saving a custom color set
    21. Organizing and layering graphics
    22. Working with layers
    23. Arranging, locking, and hiding layers
    24. Creating layer folders
    25. Transforming graphics
    26. The Transform menu and Free Transform tool
    27. The Transform panel
    28. Transforming gradients
  3. Using Symbols and the Library
    1. What are symbols?
    2. A look at the Library panel
    3. Creating symbols
    4. Converting a graphic to a symbol Creating blank symbols
    5. Building artwork with symbol instances
    6. Positioning and snapping in symbol instances
    7. Editing and duplicating symbols
    8. Editing symbols in place
    9. Modifying individual symbol instances
    10. Modifying instance color
    11. Fine-tuning your background
    12. Duplicating symbols
    13. Adding graphics and text to your banner
    14. Swapping symbols
    15. Managing the Library
    16. Organizing symbols with folders
    17. The Move To command
    18. Deleting items from the library
    19. Controlling library views
    20. Wrapping up
  4. Advanced Tools
    1. Working with gradients
    2. Adjusting gradients with the Gradient Transform tool
    3. New Flash CS4 tools for advanced drawing
    4. Spraying symbols Masking
    5. Introducing the Deco tool
    6. Advanced Deco tool techniques
    7. Introduction to IK tools
  5. Creating Basic Animation
    1. Introducing keyframes and the Timeline
    2. Layers
    3. Frames and keyframes
    4. Building animation: Enter the tween
    5. New: Tween layers and automatic keyframing
    6. Tweening multiple objects
    7. Previewing animation with Test Movie
    8. Moving and transforming tween paths
    9. Incorporating color effects and scaling
    10. New: Introducing the Motion Editor
    11. Modifying the animation using the Motion Editor
    12. Tweening rotation
    13. Controlling animation paths
    14. Where did Motion Guide layers go?
    15. What happens to my existing Flash files that use Motion Guide layers?
    16. How do I create a motion guide if I still want to?
    17. Morphing graphics and colors with shape tweens
    18. Shape tween basics
    19. Legacy techniques: Creating classic tweens
    20. Adding color effects and scaling to a classic tween
    21. (Re)creating motion guides for classic tweens
    22. Troubleshooting Motion Guides
    23. Adjusting animation with onion skinning
    24. Looking ahead
  6. Advanced Animation
    1. Copying, pasting, and saving animation
    2. Using Copy and Paste Motion
    3. New: Creating Motion Presets
    4. Applying Advanced Easing Behavior
    5. Animating Masks
    6. Creating Animation with IK Poses
    7. Sequencing Animation
    8. Shifting, Moving, and Extending Tween Spans
    9. New: Rendering and Animating in 3D
    10. The 3D Rotation tool
    11. The 3D Translation tool
    12. Fine-Tuning Tweens with the Motion Editor
    13. Adding shape tweens and shape hints
    14. Creating Shape Hints
  7. Customizing Your Workflow
    1. Customizing workspace layouts
    2. Opening the completed file
    3. Working with panels
    4. Collapsing and storing panels
    5. Managing workspaces
    6. Setting preferences
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Visual aids for alignment
    9. Rulers and guides
    10. Guide layers
    11. Advanced alignment
    12. Refining your aligned objects
  8. Working with Imported Files
    1. Import formats
    2. Importing still images
    3. Viewing the completed lesson file
    4. Import a bitmap image
    5. Adding text
    6. Swapping out an imported file
    7. Modifying imported artwork
    8. Updating imported files
    9. Importing Photoshop files
    10. Importing a layered Photoshop file
    11. Importing Illustrator artwork
    12. Animating the bat
  9. 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
  10. 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( )
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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

Comprehensive Flash CS3 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.

Each student will also receive a one-year subscription to Webucator's online reference library, which contains hundreds of the most current electronic technology books - a $149.95 per student value.

Comprehensive Flash CS3 Training Course Technical Requirements and Setup Instructions

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