Flash Training

Getting Started with Adobe Flash

Class participants are introduced to Flash, working with its interface and learning how to arrange their Flash workspace. Students then create and modify a Flash document, adding metadata, previewing and publishing the Flash document. Students also learn Flash features and file types.

Using Graphics

Adobe Flash can contain graphics from a wide variety of formats and types such as raster and vector graphics. Students learn the differences, benefits and drawbacks of each. Course attendees then import both raster and vector images, use layers to manage document editing, work with color schemes, minimize file size by using symbols and add mask effects to images.

Integrating Text

Text comes in various types, fonts, colors and sizes. Using Flash, course participants create static text, add input text fields, use ActionScript to prefill text fields, apply effects, and create form fields using the Flash Text component. Students also learn how Flash handles fonts and common, potential consequences.

Adding Animation

Fundamental to Flash is animation, providing a web site experience basic HTML-based designs cannot offer. We introduce you to basic animation concepts, such as timeline, key frame, motion and shape tweening. We also use the Motion Guide to create and snap an animation to a path.

Adding ActionScript with Script Assist

To control Adobe Flash application actions at any given time, developers use ActionScript. This scripting language can control both visual and non-visual objects including movie playback and MP3 file information retrieval. Frequently, ActionScript is used to control button and other object event handling. In this course, students learn how to use Script Assist to build a navigation menu with buttons that open a web page, load external SWF files and use actions to stop animation looping.

Working with Movie Clips

Developers can integrate movie clips into Flash to build different visual states. In this section, course attendees learn how to use behaviors, create and use movie clips, and use events to control visual states.

Adding Sound and Video

Flash Video format is commonly used for online videos, evident in its use by movie related web sites like YouTube and Google Video. In this training section, students learn how to import and control sound and video, embedding videos into a movie clip and using the FLVPlayback component to stream video from a server.

Publishing Adobe Flash Documents

Having completed a Flash document, students might want to show it to the world by publishing it online. This section shows class attendees how to publish Flash documents in different formats, create HTML files that embed a Flash SWF, use Flash player detection and save a publishing profile.

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