BASIC APPLICATION TRAINING
Macromedia Flash 4 | MX | MX2004
This one day instructor led training course is aimed at anyone who needs to use Macromedia Flash for the production of animated graphics/images for the web. It is designed to instruct the student in the fundamentals of the application and it's relationship with an HTML authoring application such as Macromedia Dreamweaver. The course consists of a series of hands-on exercises demonstrating the various tools and techniques which will be used to add the graphical elements to a website.
The outline below is presented as a guide to the elements that would generally be covered however we will always include any special or additional requirements that are identified prior to the course.
- Introduction to Flash
- The Flash interface
- Creating a new Flash document
- Developing in Flash
- Using graphics
- Importing graphics
- Using text
- Masking
- Working with symbols. libraries and
instances - Creating frame-by-frame animation
- Motion tweening
- Using motion guides
- Shape tweening
- Adding stop actions
- Graphic symbols
- Button symbols
- Movie clip symbols
- The structure of a Flash document
- Working with libraries
- Using ActionScript
- Creating interactive buttons
- Linking to a URL
- Using the load Movie action to create more efficient documents
- Using shared libraries to create smaller Flash documents
- Adding sound
- Modifying the sound level
- Creating a transparency
- Adding video
- Using components
- The bandwidth profiler
- Factors to consider before publishing
- Techniques for optimising movies
- Publishing
