Adobe Flash Professional

In this Macromedia Flash training class, students receive a comprehensive introduction to Flash 8 and basic ActionScript 2.0.

Introduction to Macromedia Flash Course Goals

• Become familiar with the Flash workspace, Learn to create graphics in Flash , work with text in Flash
• Learn to create buttons and movie clips in Flash , publish Flash documents for different players  
• Learn to work with Behaviors to create interactivity in Flash , Learn to create forms with Flash components
• Learn to add sound to Flash movies, Learn the basics of Action Script, Learn to create animations in Flash.

 1. The Flash Environment, drawing tools

      The Flash Work Environment
      Vector vs. Raster Graphics
      Timeline, Frame, Key Frame, Empty Frame
      Basic Drawing and Painting Tools
      Creating Custom Colors, Gradients, and       Line Styles
      Selecting Objects
      Object Interaction
      Transforming and Grouping Objects
      Bitmap Images

      Working with Text
      Text Blocks Converting Text into Shapes

      Multiple Layers in a Movie
      Creating and Managing Multiple Layers       Topic 5B: Mask Layers Topic 5C: Aligning Objects

2.  Symbols and Instances and Animation       in Flash
      Frame-by-Frame Animation
      Shape-Tweened Animation
      Motion-Tweened Animation
      Guide Layers
      Mask Animations

      Publishing Your Flash Movie
      Selecting Your Publishing Settings
      Previewing and Publishing Files
      Symbols and Instances

      What is a Symbol?
      Graphic Symbols
      Movie Clip Symbols
      Button Symbols
      Managing Symbols and Instances

      Organizing Large Projects
      Scenes
      Frame Labels


3.  Interactivity in Flash
      Basic Playback Control
      Creating Advanced Navigation Controls

      Working with Sound
      Importing Sounds
      Event vs. Streaming Sounds
      Testing and Publishing a Flash Movie
      Evaluating Download Performance
      Optimization Factors
      Exporting and Publishing Movies


4. Adding Sound and Video in Flash
      Using Sound and Video
      Editing Sound and Video
      Compression, Codecs, and Plug-ins
      Delivering Media Online
      File Size Considerations
      Importing Sound into a Document
      Adding and Customizing Sound
      Adding Sound to a Button
      Importing Video into Flash
      Encoding the Video


5. Basic ActionScript  
      Add ActionScript to a button
      Link a movie to a url /Enabling the timeline
      Object Orinted Programing concept
      Dot syntax / Get Property, Set Property


6. Intermediate ActionScript 
      Flash 8 Event Model
      Popup window within Flash
      Preloader  Drag and Drop
      Attach movie, Load Movie, Duplicate movie
      Swap Depth, Scrolling Content
      Navigation


7. Publishing Documents in Flash  

      Adding Metadata and Publishing SWF Files
      Detecting Flash Player
      Embedding an SWF File in an HTML P