Adobe Flash Training Course (actionscript, action script 3)

Whetstone (N20)

10/05/10

£

995

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Course Overview

Adobe Flash is a wide-reaching platform for the development and deployment of rich internet applications.

This course has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors.

Audience

Web and desktop app developers who need to learn how to develop rich web applications using Flash

Prerequisites

Experience of web development in languages such as HTML and JavaScript are useful

Course Outline

Introduction to Flash

• The Flash Interface
• Flash and HTML
• How Flash movies work - streaming and vectors
• Finding your way around Flash
• What Flash can and can't do

Flash basics

• Setting Movie properties
• Using Vector-based paint and draw tools
• Creating & editing shapes and working with shapes and elements
• Grouping elements
• Using panels and shortcuts for efficiency.

Creating vector graphics

• Lines and brush strokes
• Drawing lines, rectangles and ovals
• Smoothing/straightening lines and curves
• Using grids and rules
• Aligning objects
• Using gradients and fills
• Creating and editing custom colours and fills
• Using colours to create 3d and light effects

Text

• Creating and editing text
• Breaking apart and reshaping text
• Adjusting weighting, font, style and alignment

Transformations

• Rotating, skewing, scaling and flipping
• Free Transform Layers and Keyframes
• Locking layers and colour coding layers
• Using Mask and masked layers
• Understanding frames and keyframes

Creating simple animations

• Using the Timeline Frames and keyframes
• Using the onion skin and outline colours mode
• Frame by frame animations Video
• Create distinctive rich content and applications that incorporate video
• Importing video
• Control of video Playback

More animation features

• Creating tweened animations
• Shape and motion tweening
• Creating animations along a path

Symbols and Instances

• Working with symbols
• Creating and editing symbols
• Assigning properties to instances
• Using the Edit symbol Commands
• Applying transparency to colours and gradients

Interactivity

• Explaining actions and eventhandlers
• Types of actions
• Adding actions to buttons and keyframes
• Giving control to the user
• Nesting symbols
• Creating animated buttons
• Making interactive links to other scenes and URLs

Sound

• Importing sound
• Adding sound to a scene and adding sound to buttons
• Synchronising sound
• Streaming audio with MP3 compression

Management

• Using the library to organise elements
• Using the Movie Explorer to keep track of elements

Testing and Publishing

• Using the bandwidth profiler
• Streaming and streamlining your movie
• Using the Publish command
• Inserting a preloader