Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Essentials - I
2 Hours/Session (5 Days)

Part 1: CREATING & MANAGING CONTENT
1. Touring the Flash Interface
2. New Document Settings & Navigation
3. Drawing & Selecting Simple Vector Shapes
4. Drawing Curves with the Pen & Pencil Tools
5. Exploring Other Drawing Tools
6. Interaction between Shapes
7. Grouping Objects
8. Working in Object Drawing Mode

Part 2: MANAGING WEBSITE CONTENT
1. Working with Layers
2. Using Bitmaps
3. Adding Text
4. Use the Regular & Primitive Shape Tools to Build a Graphic
5. Creating & Adjusting a Symbol
6. Transforming Objects with the Free Transform Tool
7. Exploring Color Types & Gradients

Part 3: THE TIMELINE
1. Timeline Basics
2. Create a Span of Frames & Control the Playhead
3. Creating Keyframes
4. Insert Blank Keyframes & Clear Keyframes
5. Frame-by-Frame Animation & Onion Skin

Part 4: MOTION PRESETS
1. Getting Started with Motion Presets
2. Modifying a Motion Tween
3. Stretching Tween Spans
4. Save Custom Presets & Create Layer Folders
5. Moving Tween Spans
6. Setting Static Frames
7. Building a Test Movie

Part 5: CREATING A MOTION TWEEN
1. Adding a Motion Tween
2. Setting Property Keyframes for Scale & Rotation
3. Creating a Motion Tween from a Shape
4. Easing Keyframes
5. Creating a Fade-in by Adjusting the Alpha
6. Making a Motion Preset

Part 6: ANIMATION TECHNIQUES
1. Importing Slideshow Content
2. Working in a Movie Clip Timeline
3. Animating the First Image in the Slideshow
4. Non-linear Animation
5. Swapping Objects
6. Using the Distribute to Layers Command
7. Adjust Timeline View Options & Animation Timing

Part 7: ACTIONSCRIPT & BEHAVIORS
1. Introducing ActionScript
2. Adding a Stop Action
3. Creating Buttons & Setting Button States
4. Creating Interactive Text Buttons
5. Adding Site Content
6. Setting up for ActionScript 2
7. Adding Behaviors with ActionScript 2
8. Writing ActionScript 3

Part 8: USING SOUND & VIDEO
1. Adding a Sound File to the Timeline
2. Adding Sound to a Button
3. Encoding Video for Import into Flash
4. Set Import Options & Choose a Player Skin
5. The FLVPlayback Component & Component Inspector
6. Flash Video for ActionScript 2 & Older Players

Part 9: PUBLISHING YOUR SITE
1. Overview of Flash Publish Settings
2. Compression in Bitmaps & Sounds
3. Other Flash Publish Settings
4. HTML Settings
5. Publishing Your Flash Movie
6. Dreamweaver(R) Integration
7. Uploading Your Site to a Server via FTP

Courses can be schedule:

Monday to Friday
Session 1: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Session 2: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session 3: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Session 4: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Please Note:
Sessions must be completed within 30 days.
Courses are filled on a first come, first served basis and seats availability.
Complete the online registration or call (416) 652-1881 to register.
Depending on course registration levels, times may change or classes may be rescheduled or cancelled.

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