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Introduction to Flash 8 training
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Course Number: 450
Duration: 3 days
view class outline Flash Training Overview
Macromedia Flash 8 is the leading tool for creating interactive games and multimedia content for your Web site or e-learning application. Accelebrate's Beginning Flash 8 training class teaches you the skills you need to immediately leverage Flash's powerful capabilities.
Location and Pricing
Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/adobe.htm.
Flash Training Prerequisites
Prior knowledge of Windows or Macintosh computers and Web development. Beginning Dreamweaver training or equivalent experience is beneficial but not required.
Hands-on/Lecture Ratio
This Flash training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.
Flash Training Materials
All Flash training students receive a copy of Peachpit Press's Macromedia Flash Professional 8 Hands-On Training and related materials.
Software Needed on Each Student PC
- Firefox 2.0 or later or Internet Explorer 6 or later, with the Flash player installed
- Macromedia Flash 8, CS3, or later (Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX taught upon request); Flash 8 Professional is recommended
- Dreamweaver and Fireworks are recommended but not required
- Note: This class can be taught for Windows or MacOS audiences
Flash Training Objectives
- To master producing animated, interactive content using Flash 8
- To learn how to quickly and easily create morphing effects and motion using shape and motion tweens
- To understand how to create graphics and import graphics, audio, and video into Flash
- To discover how ActionScript can be used to greatly enhance Flash movies
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Flash Training Outline
- Understanding the Interface
- The Document Window
- The Timeline
- The Layer Controls
- The Edit Bar
- The Toolbar
- The Panels
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Creating a New Custom Keyboard Shortcut Set
- Using the Drawing and Color Tools
- Drawing Tools Defined
- Lines, Strokes, and Fills Defined
- Drawing with the Pencil Tool
- Using the Oval and Rectangle Tools
- Using the Brush Tool
- Modifying Strokes and Fills
- Understanding the Flash Drawing Models
- The Merge and Object Drawing Models
- Grouping Objects
- Creating Gradients
- Drawing with the Pen Tool
- Modifying Paths
- Animation Basics
- The Timeline
- Document Properties
- Understanding Keyframes and Frames
- Frame-by-Frame Animation with Keyframes
- What Is the Frame Rate?
- Recommended Frame Rates
- Inserting and Deleting Frames
- Copying and Reversing Frames
- Using Onion Skinning
- Testing Movies
- Shape Tweening
- What Is Shape Tweening?
- Shape Tweening
- Using Shape Hints
- Creating Multiple Shape Tweens
- Understanding Layer Properties
- Symbols and Instances
- The Symbol and Instance Structure
- Symbol Naming Conventions
- Important Timeline Vocabulary Terms
- Creating Graphic Symbols
- Creating Symbol Instances
- Editing Symbols
- Editing Symbol Instances
- Color Styles
- Animating Graphic Symbols
- Filters and Blend Modes
- What Are Blend Modes?
- Blend Mode Basics
- Working with Blend Modes
- About Filters
- Working with Filters
- Colorizing a Grayscale Image
- Motion Tweening and Timeline Effects
- Shape Tweening vs. Motion Tweening
- Understanding Basic Motion Tweening
- Using Tweening Effects
- Editing Multiple Frames
- Using a Motion Guide
- Using the Custom Ease Controls
- Animating Text
- Using Timeline Effect Assistants
- Animating with the Blur Filter
- Animating with the Drop Shadow Filter
- Working with Bitmaps
- Understanding the Benefits of Bitmaps
- Compression in Flash
- Importing and Compressing Bitmaps
- Importing Bitmap Sequences
- Converting Bitmaps to Vectors
- Using Basic Masking
- Using Animated Masks
- Animating Bitmaps
- Buttons
- Button States
- Button Types
- Creating Rollover Buttons
- Creating Rollover Buttons with Text
- Duplicating and Aligning Buttons
- Adding Sound to Buttons
- Creating Invisible Buttons
- Movie Clips
- What Is a Movie Clip?
- Creating a Movie Clip
- Animated Graphic Symbols vs. Movie Clip Symbols
- Creating an Animated Rollover Button
- Putting an Animated Rollover Button into Action
- ActionScript Basics and Behaviors
- The Behaviors Panel
- The Actions Panel Defined
- Controlling the Main Timeline
- Interactivity and Actions
- Mouse, Keyboard, Movie Clip, and Timeline Events
- Controlling Movie Clips
- What Is Dot Syntax?
- Using the goto Action
- Using the Go to Web Page Behavior
- Targeting Scenes
- What Are Frame Labels, and Why Use Them?
- Creating a Pop-Up Menu
- What Is loadMovieNum?
- Loading Movies
- Working with Text
- Text Field Types
- Creating, Modifying, and Formatting Text
- Working with Static Text and Device Fonts
- Using Small Type and Aliased Text
- Loading Text into Dynamic Text Fields
- Working with Dynamic Text and HTML
- Working with Input Text
- Sound
- Importing Sounds
- Compressing Sound
- Creating Background Sound with Sound Effects
- Modifying Sound Settings
- Controlling Sound with On/Off Buttons
- Compression Settings for Narration
- Synchronizing Sound to Narration Cues
- Controlling Animation and Sound with Stop/Play Buttons
- Adding Volume Control
- Components and Forms
- What Are Components?
- Working with Components
- Creating a Form
- Configuring Components
- Modifying Component Themes
- Using the Macromedia Flash Exchange
- Video
- Importing Video into Flash
- On2 VP6 and Sorenson Spark Video Compression
- Flash Professional 8 Video Features
- Macromedia Flash Video (FLV)
- Importing Video
- Controlling Video with stop and go Actions
- Controlling Video by Targeting Frame Labels
- Editing Video
- Using the Flash 8 Video Encoder
- Publishing and Exporting
- What Types of Content Can Flash 8 Publish?
- Using Flash 8 with HTML
- Creating Projectors
- Modifying Projectors with FSCommands
- To Publish or to Export?
- Exporting Image Files
- More About the Publish Settings
- Flash, HTML, GIF, JPEG, and PNG Settings
- Projector File Settings
- QuickTime Settings
- Saving Publishing Profiles
- Optimizing Movies
- Putting It All Together
- Understanding the Big Picture
- Examining the Scenes
- Managing and Examining Layers
- Organizing and Investigating the Library
- Using the Movie Explorer
- Building a Preloader
- The Bandwidth Profiler
- Printing from the Project File and the Macromedia Flash Player
- Exporting Scenes
- Creating Draggable Movies
- Integration
- Importing Vector Files
- Importing Fireworks Content
- Integrating with Dreamweaver
- Importing Illustrator Content
- Importing Photoshop Content
- Creating Accessible Content
- Conclusion
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