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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