Flash Introduction Course Code: FLA001

A Two Day Course

Course Objectives

This course is intended to enable users incorporate animation and vector graphics into their Web Page designs.

Course Outline

Introduction to Flash
Overview of the Flash interface; About Vector graphics and Pixels; How Flash integrates with web pages

Drawing Tools
Draw, edit, and move shapes, using the Pencil tool, the Rectangle tool, and the Arrow tool; Colour and transparency effects; Create and apply custom gradients, solid colours, and transparent colours

Introduction to Layers
Create, lock and unlock, edit, and arrange layers and make them active, visible, or invisible

Importing Artwork
Import a colour set and import and edit bitmaps and Flash Player files. Trace a bitmap and use the Magic Wand to make selections

Symbols, Instances, and the Library
Convert artwork to symbols, edit symbols and instances, and use the Library to organise the assets for your movie

Animation
Tweening - creating motion based and shape animation; Use the Timeline, and creating an animation. View and edit multiple frames on the Stage and create a motion guide, a mask, and a Shape Tween; Create a movie clip symbol with its own Timeline; Setting stage size, colour and other movie properties; Working with movie clips - self contained interactive animations; Controlling movie clips using the Tell Target action; Creating a pre-loading animation.

Scenes, Actions, and Buttons
Use Scenes to organise your movie, create multiple-state buttons, and attach actions to frames and buttons; Buttons - animated, adding sound, adding interactive actions

Sound
Insert event sounds and streaming sounds, to synchronise sounds, to change the effects for a sound, and to specify parameters for compression; Working with audio - understanding audio compression and quality issues - using MP3 compression

More Actions
Use editable text fields for forms and to use sophisticated actions such as getURL, Drag a Movie Clip, and If Frame is Loaded

Publish
Use the Publish feature to prepare and export Flash files; Dealing with non-flash browsers; Publishing movies - creating various content types; Testing your movies - testing Streaming performance.

Pre-requisites
People wishing to take this course are advised that they should have some experience of building and publishing web pages using products such as Dreamweaver.

Follow-on Courses
We can also offer training in:

• Design Techniques with Flash
• Flash ActionScript
• Flash Builder (Flex)
• Flash Catalyse
• Adobe Integrated Runtme (AIR)