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Adobe Flash CS3: Rich Content Creation

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Overview

Taught in 2 days, Adobe Flash CS3: Rich Content Creation is an introductory course that provides designers and developers new to the Flash environment the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create rich Flash content. Students will produce an engaging interface using text, graphics, animations, video, and sound. Simple user interactions are added using built in ActionScript behaviors and Script Assist. In addition to teaching essentials, the course focuses on teaching best practices for creating Flash content.

The information taught in this course, except where noted by the instructor, can be used with all of the most recent versions of Flash (MX, MX 2004, 8 and CS3).

Our instructor has been teaching Flash since version 4 and been developing applications and animations with Flash for over 3 years.

Pack-up your questions and join us for a relaxing and fun 2 day journey through the fundamentals of Adobe Flash!

For more information, please contact our Training Coordinator or call 301-797-2386.

Audience

This course is for beginners: designers and developers new to Flash who want to learn the interface and commonly used features.

Instructor Biography 

Eric McDonald

Eric McDonald wears many titles at d’Vinci including graphic designer, flash developer, website developer, and javascript writer in addition to instructor. He has been designing and developing multimedia projects since 1999. Eric is an Adobe Certified Flash Designer and Instructor and teaches one of our Flash design courses. He also helped co-develop our CSS Training and is the lead instructor.

Eric is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a degree in Graphic Design.

Prerequisites

• Experience with the Windows or Macintosh operating system.
• Familiarity with Web terminology.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Looking at the course outline

Unit 2: Working in Flash

• Setting Stage dimensions
• Working with panels and panel layouts
• Setting preferences
• Identifying the development cycle
• Publishing a file

Unit 3: Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

• Working with different graphic formats
• Importing bitmap graphics
• Importing vector graphics
• Working with layers and layer folders
• Using the drawing tools
• Using object and merge drawing
• Working with the Color panels
• Creating and using Graphic symbols
• Using the Library panel

Unit 4: Using Text Effectively

• Using the Text tool
• Adding and formatting static text
• Changing font rendering methods
• Adding input text fields
• Embedding fonts in input text fields
• Using font best practices

Unit 5: Creating Animations

• Working with the Timeline
• Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
• Creating motion tweens
• Creating shape tweens
• Creating transition effects
• Using animation best practices

Unit 6: Adding ActionScript with Script Assist and Behaviors

• Using Script Assist
• Adding actions to a frame
• Creating and using Button symbols
• Adding behaviors to a button
• Loading external SWFs

Unit 7: Using Moving Clips

• Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
• Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
• Using actions to control a Timeline
• Using frame labels
• Responding to user interactions

Unit 8: Adding Sound and Video

• Importing sound
• Changing sound properties
• Adding sound to a Timeline
• Embedding video in a Timeline
• Using the FLVPlayback component

Unit 9: Publishing Flash Documents

• Using different publishing formats
• Using publishing profiles
• Adding Flash Player detection
• Publishing for deployment

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