Adobe Flash CS4 Class 1
| Duration: | 1 day |
| Prerequisite: | You should have a working knowledge of your computer and its operating system. You should know how to manage your files on your computer. |
| Course Materials: | Course manual with CD containing exercises |
| Prices: | $260 each for 1 student (one-on-one training) $230 each for 2 to 3 students $200 each for 4 to 6 students $200 for the first 6 students, $125 for each additional student |
| Description: | This is the third and final class of our Flash CS4 course. In this class, you will learn how to create button symbols and utilize them for full control of your movies. You'll also learn some new ActionScript code to get your buttons up-and-running right away.You will also learn to add sound and video to your movies. You'll be introduced to movie clips symbols that enable you to break complex animations into smaller pieces that can be manipulated individually. Finally, you will learn how to publish your movie. This is the third day of a 3-day Flash CS4 class. You can choose to take all three days of training or to take just one or two days. You can even cherry-pick topics for a custom class. |
Creating Button Symbols
- Working with button symbols
- Building buttons
- Adding text to a button
- Duplicating and modifying buttons
- Creating text-based buttons
- Creating frame labels for ActionScript
- Adding ActionScript: Events and event handlers
- Understanding events
- Responding to events with event handlers
- Tying it all together with event listeners
- Linking buttons to specific frames
- Adding an event listener to a button
- Linking buttons to a web site
- Introducing navigateToURL( ) and URLRequest( )
Adding Sound to Your Movies
- Preparing sound files for Flash
- Sample rate and bit depth
- Editing your audio
- Mono or stereo
- Audio file formats
- Importing sounds
- Placing sounds on the Timeline
- Adding sound to your slide show project
- Adding the remaining narration
- Adding sound effects to buttons
- Placing Event sounds on button frames
- Controlling sounds
- Editing sounds
- Trimming sound
- Controlling sounds
- Repeating and looping sounds
- Looping sounds
- Introducing the SoundMixer and stopAll( )
- More sync menu controls: stop and start
- Start sounds
- Stop sounds
- Sound publishing options
Introducing Movie Clips
- Introducing Movie Clips
- About movie clips
- Creating movie clips
- Laying the foundation: Your first movie clip
- Previewing movie clip animation from the main Timeline
- Creating the landing gear
- Combining movie clips and main Timeline animation
- Nesting movie clips
- Adding ActionScript to movie clip Timelines
- Controlling movie clip playback
- Adding some variation to the propellers
- Tweening movie clips
- Adding a second tween
- Combining movie clips for complex animation
- Adding filter effects to movie clips
- Using the Filters panel
- Creating a filter effect
Working with Video
- Video in Flash: formats and fundamentals
- Understanding video
- Embedded versus linked video
- The Flash Video format
- Understanding codecs
- Understanding the Adobe Media Encoder
- Converting video with the
- Adobe Media Encoder
- Working with embedded video
- Adding embedded video to the Timeline
- Building controls for embedded video
- The Bandwidth Profiler
- Working with linked video
- Adding cue points in the
- Adobe Media Encoder
- Adding linked video to the Timeline
- Working with the FLVPlayback component
Delivering Your Final Movie
- The publishing process
- Publishing to the web
- Customizing the Publish settings
- CD-ROM delivery
- Creating a standalone projector
- Make a full-screen projector
- Using Export Movie
- An overview of FTP
- Using Adobe Device Central in Flash