Further Details
Introduction to Flash
The Flash Interface
Flash and HTML
How Flash movies work - streaming and vectors
Finding your way around Flash
What Flash can and can't do
Flash Basics
Setting Movie properties
Using Vector-based paint and draw tools
Creating & editing shapes and working with shapes and elements
Grouping elements
Using panels and shortcuts for efficiency.
Creating Vector Graphics
Lines and brush strokes
Drawing lines, rectangles and ovals
Smoothing/straightening lines and curves
Using grids and rules
Aligning objects
Using gradients and fills
Creating and editing custom colours and fills
Using colours to create 3d and light effects
Text
Creating and editing text
Breaking apart and reshaping text
Adjusting weighting, font, style and alignment
Transformations
Rotating, skewing, scaling and flipping
Free Transform
Layers and Keyframes
Locking layers and colour coding layers
Using Mask and masked layers
Understanding frames and keyframes
Creating Simple Animations
Using the Timeline Frames and keyframes
Using the onion skin and outline colours mode
Frame by frame animations
More Animation Features
Creating tweened animations
Shape and motion tweening
Creating animations along a path
Symbols and Instances
Working with symbols
Creating and editing symbols
Assigning properties to instances
Using the Edit symbol Commands
Applying transparency to colours and gradients
Images
Direct import of layered images from other Adobe products such as Photoshop
Do’s and don’t’s when importing images
Interactivity
Explaining actions and event-handlers
Types of actions
Adding actions to buttons and keyframes
Giving control to the user
Nesting symbols
Creating animated buttons
Making interactive links to other scenes and URLs
Sound
Importing sound
Adding sound to a scene and adding sound to buttons
Synchronising sound
Streaming audio with MP3 compression
Video
Flash video codecs explained
Video streaming modes explained
Using the video import wizard
How to deploy video
Components
Introduction to components
Changing component parameters
Changing the appearance of components
Management
Using the library to organise elements
Using the Movie Explorer to keep track of elements
Testing and Publishing
Using the bandwidth profiler
Streaming and streamlining your movie
Using the Publish command
Inserting a preloader
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