
Adobe
Flash Essentials Training: $795
Course Description
This comprehensive introduction to the Flash authoring environment will provide both graphic designers and web developers with the skills needed to create rich internet applications with Flash. Students will first learn how to create engaging web banners and then advance to building a Flash based website that includes animation and video as well as interactivity controlled by ActionScript.
What you will learn
During the 2 day Flash Essentials course, the following topics are covered:
- — Project Planning
- — Workflow
- — Setting up new documents
- — Creating Layers and Guides
- — Importing Bitmap and Vector Graphics
- — Drawing in Flash
- — Using Text and Filters
- — Using Symbols and the Library
- — About Flash Animation
- — Creating Motion Tween Animation
- — Creating Shape Tween animation
- — Creating Masks
- — Additional Animation Techniques
- — Inverse Kinematics (Bones)
- — Controlling the Timeline using ActionScript
- — Text Preparation
- — Creating Dynamic Text Fields
- — Making Buttons
- — Loading images using ActionScript
- — Video Asset Preparation
- — Customising the FLV Component's Playback Skin
- — Loading video into the FLV Component
See the outline below for more in-depth detail:
Who Should Attend
This course is for anyone who wishes to use Flash to increase user engagement with their web site and to make the site more visually appealing. No prior experience with Flash is required.

Adobe Flash Course Outline
Planning
- Scoping a Flash project
- Defining end user requirements
- Understanding technical requirements
- Deployment
Workflow
- Asset Preparation
- Optimisation, Re-usability and Best Practice
- IDE Overview: The Flash Interface
Setting Up New Documents
- Creating a new Flash Document
- Setting Stage properties
- Defining Publishing Setting
- Adding Metadata and Accessibility
Creating Layers and Guides
- Creating and naming Layers
- The Timeline panel
- Locking/Unlocking and Hiding/Showing Layers
- Re-ordering layers
Importing Bitmap and Vector Graphics
- Bitmap Image Overview
- Importing Bitmaps
- Importing Vector files
Drawing in Flash
- Vector paths
- Colour Tools and Panels
Using Text and Filters
- Static Text
- Hyperlinks
- Text Filters
Using Symbols and the Library
- The Library
- Creating Symbols
- Symbol types and their usage
About Flash Animation
- Animation Basics
- Animation Types
- Stepframe animation
- How to create a stepframe animation:
- Editing Stepframe animation
Create Motion Tween Animation
- About Motion Tweens
- Motion Tween Rules
- Using Motion Paths
Create Shape Tween animation
- About Shape Tweens
- Shape Tween rules
Create Masks
- Masking rules
- How to create masks
Using ActionScript to control Timelines
- Adding a Stop action
- Extending the Timeline
Additional Animation Techniques
- Tweening with Filters
- Tweening with 3D
Inverse Kinematics (Bones)
- About Inverse Kinematics
- Using Inverse Kinematics with Symbols and Shapes
- Creating an IK Armature with the Bone tool
- Controlling and constraining Bones
ActionScript Basics
- The ActionScript Window
- The Code Snippets Panel
- Add an action that affects an object or the playhead
Text Preparation
- Text engines
- Flash CS TLF Text
- Classic Text
- Text Asset preparation
Creating Dynamic TextFields
- Setting dynamic and input text options
- Embedding Font Characters
Making Buttons
- Button Definition
- Creating a button
Loading images using ActionScript
- Image asset preparation
- File formats
- Using ActionScript to load images
- Using the Snippets panel
- Using the supplied ActionScript Class - ClickLoader
- Dependencies
Video Asset Preparation
- Preparing Video files for use in Flash
- File formats
- To stream or not to stream - that is the question
- Tips for creating FLV and FV content
- Methods for using video in Flash
- Using the Adobe Media Encoder
Customising the FLV Component's Playback Skin
- About the FLVPlayback component
- Adding the FLV Component to the Stage
- The Components panel
- FLV Playback Properties panel
- Using Custom playback controls for the FLV Component
- Setting up the FLV component to use custom controls
- Using custom Video playback controls
- Editing custom Video playback controls
Loading video into the FLV Component
- Manually adding the video source
- Using Actionscript to assign the video source
Adobe Flash
COURSE OUTLINES
Flash Web Banners Outline
1 day course: $595
ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Outline
2 day course: $895
| SYDNEY | January | February | March | April | May | June |
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| Flash Banners | — | 27 |
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| Flash Essentials | — | 27 & 28 |
— | 2 & 3 | — | 18 & 19 |
| ActionScript 3.0 for Flash | — | — | — | 12 & 13 | — | — |
| MELBOURNE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
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| Flash Banners | — | 1 | 26 | — | 17 | — |
| Flash Essentials | — | 1 & 2 | 26 & 27 | — | 17 & 18 | — |
| ActionScript 3.0 for Flash | — | 16 & 17 | — | 19 & 20 | — | 14 & 15 |
| BRISBANE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
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| Flash Banners | Currently not available as a public course in Brisbane. | |||||
| Flash Essentials | Private training can be organised onsite for all Adobe Flash training. | |||||
| ActionScript 3.0 for Flash | ||||||