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Adobe Flash CS5 Essentials course
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Overview
Flash is a multimedia authoring program and web standard for integrating vector graphics and animation into web sites. It is used to create content such as web applications, games and movies. Flash is used to add graphics, animation, interactivity, sound and video to a web site or to create standalone applications and presentations.
This course covers the essential building blocks required to produce Flash content. Delegates will learn the basics of animating techniques (logo’s and flash banners).
Audience
Web designers and developers or any other professional, new to Flash, needing to create web rich content.
Course Objectives
At the end of the course delegates will be able to create custom Flash animations using frame-by-frame, tweening animation through the use of graphics (custom and imported) text, animations, video, and sound.
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge of Flash is assumed though a basic understanding of html and CCS, web page design and web graphic production is useful.
Course Contents (2 days)
- Overview of Flash Content
- File Types, Workflows & Delivery Options
- Native Flash Documents
- Shockwave Flash Documents (SWF)
- Web Delivery
- Standalone Projector Delivery
- Adobe Integrated Runtime Apps
- Story Boards
- Navigation mapping
- Frame Rates
- Advertising Banner Specs & sizes
- Integration with Illustrator and Photoshop
- Work Space
- Previewing
- Testing
- Publishing
- Working with Assets
- Bitmaps and Images
- Sound
- Video
- Shapes & drawing tools overview
- Groups and Primitives
- Strokes, Fills, Gradients, Patterns and
Transparency (Alpha) - Components
- Typography (text)
- Components
- Understanding components
- Working with components
- Locating online components
- Component properties
- Symbol Theory
- Library Panel
- Properties and Property Inspector
- Creating and Editing Symbols
- Symbol Instances
- Colour Effects
- Blends, Filters
- Transformation
- 3D Transformation
- Creating Animation
- Time Lines
- Layers and Layer Folders
- Frames, Keyframes
- Shape Tweening
- Classic Tweening
- Motion Tweening
- Animating Position, Pace, Timing
- The Motion Editor
- Motion Presets
- 3D Motion
- Creating Navigation
- ClickThroughs
- Buttons Symbols
- Simple ActionScript
- Code Snippets
- Loading Movies
- Jumping to frames
- Linking to URLs
- Adobe Media Encoder
- Publishing
- Bandwidth Profiling
- Metadata
- Optimising Images and sound