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Flash Training: Essential Skills I

Flash Training: Essential Skills I

Flash Training: Essential Skills I Schedule

Phoenix, AZ - Tempe June 18-19, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart
Austin, TX June 25-26, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart
Phoenix, AZ - Tempe July 09-10, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart
Austin, TX July 16-17, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart
Online Live August 06-07, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart
Phoenix, AZ - Tempe August 13-14, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart
Austin, TX August 20-21, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart

Special Group rates are available for this training.

We can also perform this training at your location or at one of the cities listed below:

Flash Training: Essential Skills I Overview

Create engaging interactive Flash(swf) content for the web in this comprehensive two day Flash class.  This training focuses on learning the interface, working with the timeline to create animations, and the essential workflow when creating content for the web.  Create a complete Flash website with navigation, motion graphics, video and loaded content through simple interactive code.  Build web banners and learn how to convert Quicktime videos to the popular FLV format that has become ubiquitous on the web.  This training begins with the fundamentals to establish a solid foundation and finishes at an intermediate level.

Your instructor will cover the pitfalls, and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating rich interactive pieces with the latest standards to reach world-wide audiences across different browsers and computer platforms in this Adobe Flash training.

This Flash CS4/CS5 course is intensive, but not complicated.  Our job is to make difficult concepts easy to understand and implement into your own projects.

Work with Flash's toolset
Create with new toolsets

Learn Flash Animation
Learn the new motion editor

Flash Training: Essential Skills I Course Materials

Along with this Two-Day Training, you will receive:

  • Course Manual
  • Student Files and Class Assets
  • How-To Videos on CD*
  • An Adobe Nationally Recognized Course Certificate
  • After-Class, Follow-Up Support
  • Conversion Tools Bookmark
  • Additional Goodies!

*Some classes may not include videos

Flash Training: Essential Skills I Course Prerequisites

  • Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac

Flash Training: Essential Skills I Course Outline

Flash Training: Essential Skills I PDF Version of Flash Training: Essential Skills I Outline

NEW FEATURES OF CS5 COVERED

  • New Text Engine
  • Code Snippets Panel
  • Improved Creative Suite Integration
  • Spring for Bones
  • Video Improvements
  • New Deco Drawing Tools

Flash Jumpstart

  • About Flash Player
  • Flash File Types
  • Creating and Setting up a New Document
  • The Flash Workspace
  • The Stage and Work Area
  • The Flash Tools Panel
  • The Property Inspector
  • The Timeline

Creating Graphics

  • Drawing Models
  • Using Fills and Strokes
  • Working with Color
  • Using the Primitive Tools (Smart Shapes)
  • Using the Oval Primitive Tool
  • Using the Rectangle Primitive Tool
  • Adding Text to Your Artwork
  • Creating Gradients
  • Using the Spray Brush
  • Using the Deco Tool
  • Using the Bones Tool

Using Symbols and the Library

  • What are Symbols?
  • A Look at the Library Panel
  • Creating Symbols
  • Converting a Graphic to a Symbol
  • Building Artwork with Symbol Instances
  • Positioning and Snapping in Symbol Instances
  • Editing and Duplicating Symbols
  • Editing Symbols in Place
  • Modifying Individual Symbol Instances
  • Duplicating Symbols
  • Managing the Library
  • Applying Filters to Symbols

Importing Graphics

  • Working with Bitmap Images
  • Importing Photoshop Files
  • Import Options for Photoshop Files
  • Importing Illustrator Files
  • Import Options for Illustrator Files
  • Working with Layers in the Timeline
  • Working with Masks

Creating Basic Animation

  • Introducing Keyframes and the Timeline
  • Frames and Keyframes
  • Understand the Animation Process
  • Building an Animation
  • Working with Shape Tweens
  • Using Shape Hints
  • Controlling Animation Paths
  • Morphing Graphics and Colors with Shape Tweens
  • Working with Classic Tweens
  • Applying Ease to Tweens
  • Custom Ease Effects with the Ease Editor
  • Working with Motion Tweens
  • Understand Motion Tween Animating Model
  • Modifying the Motion Path
  • Understanding the Motion Editor Panel
  • Modifying the Animation using the Motion Editor
  • Previewing Animation with Test Movie
  • Using the Stop Action to Control the Timeline

 

Introduction to Button Symbols

  • Converting to a Button Symbol
  • Understand the Button States
  • Adding Simple Roll-over Effect to a Button
  • Creating Advanced Button Symbols
  • Introduction to the Behaviors Panel
  • Understanding the Limitations of Flash Behaviors
  • GoToWeb Behavior

Timeline Control And MovieClip Concepts

  • Using the GoToAndPlay Behavior
  • Using the GoToAndStop Behavior
  • Adding Frame Labels to Keyframes
  • Controlling Timeline Progression with Behaviors and Labels
  • Working within MovieClips
  • Nesting MovieClips
  • Combining MovieClips for Complex Animation
  • Import External SWFs into MovieClips
  • Simple Flash Site Creation

Adding Sound to Your Movies

  • Preparing Sound Files for Flash
  • Mono or Stereo
  • Audio File Formats
  • Importing Sounds
  • Placing Sounds on the Timeline
  • Adding Sound Effects to Buttons
  • Editing Sounds
  • Trimming Sound
  • Repeating and Looping Sounds
  • Looping Sound

 

Working with Video

  • Video in Flash:  Formats and Fundamentals
  • Understanding Video
  • Embedded Versus Linked Video
  • The Flash Video Format
  • Understanding Codecs
  • Using the Adobe Media Encoder
  • Working with the FLVPlayback Component
  • Using HD video with H.264 Format
  • Using Full Screen Capabilities

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 Working with Video
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