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Course Outline

*Please note: It is highly recommended that you complete our Flash basics course before attempting this course as the topics covered are highly complex.

Below you will find a comprehensive list of all the main topics covered throughout your training. Don't worry, we know it looks like a lot but our courses have been designed to allow us to get through it all with ease.

Import Existing Artwork

Importing Adobe Illustrator artwork
Importing Adobe Photoshop artwork
Importing Layers as Symbols

Working with Text

Working with dynamic text

Modify text properties

Working with new CS5 text improvements

Understanding TLF flash text

Creating and Editing Symbols

Importing Illustrator Files
About Symbols
Creating Symbols
Importing Photoshop Files
Editing and Managing Symbols
Changing Size and Position of Instances
Changing the Colour Effect of Instances
Understanding Blend Effects
Applying Filters for Special Effects
Positioning in 3D Space

Mastering the Timeline

Understanding the overwhelming timeline

Mastering layers

Arranging layers

Working with layer masks

Mastering fames

Different frame types

Understanding frames

Understanding keyframes

Editing frames

Positioning frames

Clipping frames

Understanding the symbol timeline

Onion skinning

Timeline frame options

Navigating the Flash Timeline

Placing code on the Flash timeline
Control playback with ActionScript
Preview in the testing environment

Motion Tweens

Understanding motion tweens

Motion tween creation

Motion tweens and easing

Motions tween troubleshooting

Shape Tweens

Understanding shapes and tweens

Shape tween creation

Tween more that one shape

Tweens and easing

Creating Interactive Navigation

Understanding Interactive Movies
Designing
Creating Buttons
Understanding ActionScript 3.0
Adding a Stop Action
Creating Event Handlers for Buttons
Creating Destination Keyframes
Playing Animation at the Destination
Animated Buttons

Events and Functions

Creating navigation
Using event listeners
Write event handling functions
Open a URL in a browser using ActionScript and a mouse click
Combine strings of text with variable values to populate a text field
Use buttons to change values of variables

Creating Animation

Controlling MovieClips with ActionScript
Creating animation using ActionScript
Conditional statements detect boundaries
Store references to a movie clip
Use easing to create animation effects

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ActionScript in External Files

Creating an ActionScript file
Creating instances of a class file
Create a constructor function
Add methods and properties to a class
Define parameters for class methods
Use the MOUSE_MOVE event

Use ActionScript to Load Content

Work with User Interface components
Create an instance of the List component and setting its parameters
Adding an instance of the UILoader component
Adding a CHANGE event listener to the List component
Loading SWF files into a UILoader
Creating the gallery file
Adding a scroll bar to the text field

Creating Preloaders

Tools in the testing environment
Creating a text field and progress bar to track loading
Inserting ActionScript to track progress of the UILoader component
Controlling the frames of a MovieClip to reflect loading progress

Using Arrays and Loops

Adding MovieClip instances to the stage from the Library
Generating multiple instances
Adding event listeners to the Block instances
Creating animation using ENTER_FRAME
Adding the testDone() function

Creating a Radio Button Quiz

Creating a new ActionScript file

Setting up the RadioButtonQuiz class
Adding variables to the RadioButtonQuiz class
Creating the quiz functionality
Formatting text with ActionScript
Creating the quiz
Creating checkAnswer()—the final function
Integrating your new class into the Flash project

Controlling Sound

Adding sliders to the project
The Sound, SoundChannel, and SoundTransform classes
Setting the song titles using a for loop
Making the sliders invisible until needed
Programming buttons to select songs
Controlling the visibility of the volume and pan controls
Adding a listener for the ID3 tags of an MP3 file
Adding a text format object
Adding the slider controls

Controlling Video

Adding the FLVPlayback component
Setting FLVPlayback properties in Flash
Adding ActionScript control of FLVPlayback properties
Working with colour
Adding the FLVCaptioning component
Playing multiple video files from an XML playlist
Using the full-screen publish settings

Publishing Flash Documents

Testing a Flash Document
Understanding the Bandwidth Profiler
Adding Metadata
Publishing a Movie for the Web
Alternative Publishing Options