Adobe Flash CS4: Rich Media Content

Berkshire

Reading (RG1)

25/03/10

£

595

Manchester (Greater)

Manchester (M4)

19/04/10

£

495

Manchester (M4)

21/06/10

£

495

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Course Overview

Flash CS4 is a web standard - fusing the precision and flexibility of vector graphics with animation, interactivity, video and audio to create visually powerful web content that attracts and engages users. With powerful ActionScripting capabilities and dramatically improved integration with Photoshop and Illustrator, Flash is a web design and development tool of the future.

This extremely popular two day course has proved to be the most effective way of getting up and running in Adobe Flash quickly and easily. The course covers all the Flash basics, importing, creating and editing vector graphics and working with text as well as creating animations, building a navigational system, creating interactive elements using built-in ActionScript behaviours, incorporating sound and video and publishing and testing your Flash movies. This course has been classified as IT Technical Training.

Audience

This Adobe authorised course is designed for new users of Adobe Flash CS4 who wish to create visually engaging rich media content using the powerful design and animation tools available in Flash.

Course Outline

DAY ONE

Introduction

• Course objectives

Working in Flash

• The new Adobe Flash interface
• Customising the interface
• Creating a new Flash document
• Setting stage dimensions
• Working with panels and panel layouts
• Setting preferences
• Identifying the development cycle
• Working with vectors
• Publishing a file

Creating and importing graphic assets

• Working with different graphics formats
• Importing bitmap graphics
• Using the Flash import wizard
• Layering Flash elements
• Organising using the Layer folder
• Using the drawing tools
• Using Object and Merge drawing
• Working with the colour panels
• Creating a colour swatch
• Using the library panel

Using text effectively

• Using the text tool
• Adding and formatting static text
• Changing font rendering methods
• Static and dynamic text
• Embedded vs device fonts
• Font properties
• Working with anti-aliased text
• Text components in Flash
• Adding Input Text fields
• Embedding fonts in Input Text fields
• Using font best practices

DAY TWO

Creating animations

• Working with the Timeline
• Using keyframes, blank keyframes and frames
• Motion tweening
• Motion guide layers
• Shape tweening
• Creating transition effects
• Copying a motion to another asset
• Reusing motions and animations
• Photoshop to Flash workflow

Working with Behaviours

• Using Script Assist
• Adding actions to a frame
• Using button symbols
• Adding behaviours to a button
• Loading external SWFs

Using Movie Clips for interactive rich media

• Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
• Organising a Movie Clip timeline
• Using Actions to control a timeline
• Using frame labels
• Responding to user interactions

Adding sound and video

• Importing sound
• Changing sound properties
• Adding sound to a timeline
• Embedding video in a timeline
• Using the FLVPlayback component

Publishing Flash documents

• Using different publishing formats
• Using publishing profiles
• Adding Flash Player detection
• Publishing for deployment
• Adobe Device Central

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