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Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Essentials
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Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Essentials

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Presenter
John Ulliman
John Ulliman is an authorized instructor for Macromedia's studio of products and principal of his own project development company, where he works closely with the major multimedia software companies. John has been teaching ever since he first started using a computer. Currently, he focuses on the products he uses to make animation magic work, with the intention to bring as much practical experience to his lessons as possible.

Format
Online, DVD-ROM & DVD Bundles

Running Time
6 Hours

Platform
Windows & MAC OS

Level
Beginner to Intermediate

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Chapter 1: CREATING & MANAGING CONTENT (32 min)
  1. Touring the Flash Interface
  2. New Document Settings & Navigation
  3. Drawing & Selecting Simple Vector Shapes
  4. Drawing Curves with the Pen & Pencil Tools
  5. Exploring Other Drawing Tools
  6. Interaction between Shapes
  7. Grouping Objects
  8. Working in Object Drawing Mode
Chapter 2: MANAGING WEBSITE CONTENT (10 min)
  1. Working with Layers
  2. Using Bitmaps
  3. Adding Text
  4. Use the Regular & Primitive Shape Tools to Build a Graphic
  5. Creating & Adjusting a Symbol
  6. Transforming Objects with the Free Transform Tool
  7. Exploring Color Types & Gradients
Chapter 3: THE TIMELINE (20 min)
  1. Timeline Basics
  2. Create a Span of Frames & Control the Playhead
  3. Creating Keyframes
  4. Insert Blank Keyframes & Clear Keyframes
  5. Frame-by-Frame Animation & Onion Skin
Chapter 4: MOTION PRESETS (35 min)
  1. Getting Started with Motion Presets
  2. Modifying a Motion Tween
  3. Stretching Tween Spans
  4. Save Custom Presets & Create Layer Folders
  5. Moving Tween Spans
  6. Setting Static Frames
  7. Building a Test Movie
Chapter 5: CREATING A MOTION TWEEN (38 min)
  1. Adding a Motion Tween
  2. Setting Property Keyframes for Scale & Rotation
  3. Creating a Motion Tween from a Shape
  4. Easing Keyframes
  5. Creating a Fade-in by Adjusting the Alpha
  6. Making a Motion Preset
Chapter 6: ANIMATION TECHNIQUES (55 min)
  1. Importing Slideshow Content
  2. Working in a Movie Clip Timeline
  3. Animating the First Image in the Slideshow
  4. Non-linear Animation
  5. Swapping Objects
  6. Using the Distribute to Layers Command
  7. Adjust Timeline View Options & Animation Timing
Chapter 7: ACTIONSCRIPT & BEHAVIORS (62 min)
  1. Introducing ActionScript
  2. Adding a Stop Action
  3. Creating Buttons & Setting Button States
  4. Creating Interactive Text Buttons
  5. Adding Site Content
  6. Setting up for ActionScript 2
  7. Adding Behaviors with ActionScript 2
  8. Writing ActionScript 3
Chapter 8: USING SOUND & VIDEO (43 min)
  1. Adding a Sound File to the Timeline
  2. Adding Sound to a Button
  3. Encoding Video for Import into Flash
  4. Set Import Options & Choose a Player Skin
  5. The FLVPlayback Component & Component Inspector
  6. Flash Video for ActionScript 2 & Older Players
Chapter 9: PUBLISHING YOUR SITE (40 min)
  1. Overview of Flash Publish Settings
  2. Compression in Bitmaps & Sounds
  3. Other Flash Publish Settings
  4. HTML Settings
  5. Publishing Your Flash Movie
  6. Dreamweaver(R) Integration
  7. Uploading Your Site to a Server via FTP
  8. Credits