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Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Training

 

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Training
Duration: 2 days
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Course Synopsis: All-new Adobe Flash Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for rich, interactive content creation. This course introduces the students to creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements, and engaging presentations. Over the two day course students will build a Flash based website with interactivity, video, components, and minimal ActionScript. Learn the fundamentals of Adobe Flash fast with a fluid workflow and best practices.

Who Should Attend: All-new Adobe Flash Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for rich, interactive content creation. This course introduces the students to creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements, and engaging presentations. Learn the fundamentals of Adobe Flash fast with a fluid workflow and best practices. This is an introductory course and no prior knowledge of Adobe Flash is necessary.

Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.

What You Will Learn:
• The Flash Workspace and Panels
• Drawing and Color Basics
• Using the Timeline and Layers
• Learning the basics of Symbols and the Flash Library
• Using Filters and Blend Modes
• Animation with the Timeline in Flash
• Working with Sound and Video
• Exporting and Publishing From Flash

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.

Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.

Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Flash ActionScript, Illustrator and Fireworks. Please take a look at the other course outlines.

Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.

Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094.


Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

 

LESSON 1
Getting To Know the Work Area
Working with the Library Panel
Understanding the Timeline
Organizing Layers in a Timeline
Using the Property Inspector
Using the Tools Panel
Undoing Steps in Flash
Previewing your Movie
Publishing your Movie
Resources for Using Flash
Checking for Updates


LESSON 2
Working with Graphics
Understanding Strokes and Fills
Creating Rectangles
Using a Gradient Fill
Making Selections
Drawing Ovals
Making Patterns
Creating Curves
Creating Transparencies
Creating and Editing Text


LESSON 3
Creating and Editing Symbols
Importing Illustrator Files
About Symbols
Creating Symbols
Importing Photoshop Files
Editing and Managing Symbols
Changing Size and Position of
Symbol Instances
Changing the Color Effect
Understanding Blend Effects
Applying Filters for Special Effects
Positioning in 3D Space


LESSON 4
Adding Animation
Understanding the Project File
Animating Position
Changing the Pacing and Timing
Animating Transparency
Animating Filters
Animating Transformations
Changing the Path of Motion
Swapping Tween Targets
Creating Nested Animations
Using the Motion Editor
Easing
Animating 3D Motion
Previewing the Animation


LESSON 5
Articulated Motion and Morphing
Inverse Kinematics
Constraining Joints
Inverse Kinematics with Shapes
Armature Options
Morphing with Shape Tweens
Using Shape Hints


LESSON 6
Creating Interactive Navigation
About Interactive Movies
Designing a Layout
Creating Buttons
Introduction to ActionScript 3.0
Adding a Stop Action
Creating Event Handlers for Buttons
Creating Destination Keyframes
Playing Animation at the Destination
Animated Buttons


LESSON 7
Working with Sound and Video
Using Sounds in Flash
Understanding Flash Video
Using the Adobe Media Encoder
Encoding Options
Playback of External Video
Working with Video and Transparency
Embedding Flash Video


LESSON 8
Using Components
The Components Panel
Adding a Text Component
Using Components for Interactivity


LESSON 9
Loading and Controlling Flash Content
Loading External Content
Removing External Content
Controlling Movie Clips
Creating Masks


LESSON 10
Publishing Flash Documents
Testing a Flash Document
Understanding the Bandwidth Profiler
Adding Metadata
Publishing a Movie for the Web
Alternative Publishing Options


 

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