Adobe Flash CS4 - CS3 Training Video - CD

This Flash Training Video is just like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each stage step-by-step and offering helpful tips and techniques that will increase your creativity and boost your workflow. The training comprises of a series of lessons with each lesson covering a slightly more complex topic than the one prior, you will be amazed just how much you can learn and retain in such a short space of time. By the conclusion of this Flash Training Video your creative skills will be limited only by your own imagination.

Ships on: CD-ROM
Number of Lessons: 88
System requirements: PC or Mac
Covers: CS4 and CS3

Topics covered on this Training CD

Introduction
Welcome

Getting Started
The New Interface
Setting up a Productive Workspace
Modifying a Document's Properties
The Stage and Pasteboard
The Timeline and Layers
Scenes

Drawing Tools
Object and Merge Drawing
Drawing Basics: Rectangle Tool
Sphere and Oval Tools
Primitive Shapes
Pencil and Line Tools
Pen Tool
Selecting and Deleting Content
Modifying Content
The Free Transform Tool
Advanced Drawing Techniques
The Art Deco Tool

Colour
Colour and Swatches Palettes
Working with Gradients

Text Tools
Text Boxes
Text Types
Text Formatting
Spellchecking

Working with Images
Different Types of Images
Trace Bitmap Feature and Breaking Apart Bitmaps
Ensuring Best Quality for Export

Symbols & Instances
Creating Symbols
Button Symbol Type and Button States
Symbol Editing
Overview of the Library
Organizing the Library
9-Slice Scaling
Filters and Blends
Components

Concepts of Animation
Understanding Flash Animation
Frame by Frame Animation
Onion Skinning
Multiple Frames Tool
Frame Rate
Ways to Copy Animation

Shape Tweens
Creating a Shape Tween
Creating Shape Hints
Multiple Shape Tweens at One Time

Motion Tweens
The New Tween Model
Creating a Motion Tween
Using Motion Paths - Part 1
Using Motion Paths - Part 2
Using the Motion Editor
Built in Motion Presets
Saving Motion Presets
Nesting Animations

Masks
Creating a Mask
Animating a Mask

Overview of Actionscript
Comparing Actionscript 1,2 and 3
The Actions Panel
Linking to a Specific Frame and Frame Labels
Linking to a Website

Working with Sound
Importing Sound
Sound Types and Editing

Working with Video
Embed Vs. External Video
Using the Adobe Media Encoder

Working with the Bone Tool (CS4)
Inverse Kinetics with the Bone Tool
Creating Bones
Bone Animation

Working with 3D in Flash
Using the 3D Rotation and Translation Tools
Animating in 3D

Integration
Direct Import of Photoshop Files
Direct Import of Illustrator Files
The Concept Behind XFL Files
Integration with other Adobe Products (CS4)

Previewing
Testing your Movie
The Bandwidth Profiler and Simulating Download

Publishing
Publish Settings
Publishing Flash and HTML
Publishing to a Projector File
Exporting to Adobe Air

Exercises
Banner Intro
Banner Exercise
Cross Fading Pictures
Importing Dynamic Text from an External File
Using a Custom Cursor