Flash Training: Beginning Flash 8

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Course Number: 450
Duration: 3 days
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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. To receive a customized proposal and price quote, 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, related materials, and a CD-R copy of the files they create during the class.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Firefox 1.5 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

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

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