InDesign Interactivity & Animation | Overview

Course Description

Learn how to prepare your InDesign documents to include rich media elements, such as sound, video content and animated graphics. Also learn to add interactive components such as hyperlinks, user-triggered buttons and movie panels to create animations and interactive presentations. This class is taught by a video and animation specialist.

It is essential that students have at least 1 to 2 years experience with InDesign or have completed the 2 day Adobe InDesign Essentials course. See course outline on next tab, for more details.

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Include sound, audio, animation..

Create interactive & engaging PDFs!

Adobe InDesign Interactivity and Animation Course

InDesign Interactivity & Animation | Overview

Setup for Interactivity & Animation

Interactive PDF workspaces
Supported file formats: PDF, SWF, XHTML and ePub, SWFs
Best Preferences for Interactivity
Colour: CMYK vs RGB

Special Effects for Presentations

Adding a drop shadow
Creating a reflection
Using effective page transitions

Audio & Video

Importing sounds and movies
Linking to web videos
Movie Options: Play on Page Load, Loop, include a poster, Appearance of Controller buttons, Add navigation points
Sound Options
Limitations with audio and video

Animations

Motion Presets
Using the Animation Panel
Create custom animations
Edit Motion Paths
Animation Buttons
Creating complex animations
The Timing Panel
SWF Export
When to use Flash
Exporting content to use in Flash
JPEG image quality

Creating Digital Magazines using InDesign & Flash

Preparing your SWF prototype for a Flash developer
Exporting to XFL
Opening the XFL file in Flash CS5
Adding a stop action to the first frame
Animating the masthead
Testing the animation
Create buttons for navigation
Importing video content and formatting

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Canberra

SYDNEY Select a date to book online now	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept
InDesign Lite	17	21	25	25	26	24
InDesign Essentials	17 & 18 23 & 24	1 & 2 13 & 14 21 & 22	4 & 5 13 & 14 17 & 18 25 & 26	1 & 2 9 & 10 17 & 18 25 & 26	5 & 6 13 & 14 21 & 22 29 & 30	4 & 5 9 & 10 17 & 18 26 & 27
InDesign Advanced	4 & 5	14 & 15	27 & 28	29 & 30	—	2 & 3
eBooks: Creating ePubs	10	—	21	15	26	11 Oct
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad	11 & 12	9 & 10 30 & 31	17 & 18	3 & 4 24 & 25	13 & 14 29 & 30	19 & 20
InDesign Interactivity & Animation	—	8	—	5	9	6
InDesign Accessibility	—	—	12 (AM)	19 (PM)	—	30 (PM)

MELBOURNE Select a date to book online now	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept
InDesign Lite	22	15	13	24	28	19
InDesign Essentials	9 & 10 22 & 23	15 & 16 28 & 29	13 & 14 24 & 25	9 & 10 24 & 25	5 & 6 20 & 21	4 & 5 19 & 20 2 & 3 Oct
InDesign Advanced	4 & 5	30 & 31	—	22 & 23	28 & 29	7 & 8 Oct
eBooks: Creating ePubs	24	—	17	31	—	6
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad	—	6 & 7	4 & 5	8 & 9	8 & 9	2 & 3
InDesign Interactivity & Animation	—	—	—	12	—	18
InDesign Accessibility (1-4.30pm)	—	27	—	24	—	13

BRISBANE Select a date to book online now	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept
InDesign Lite	29	16 27	20	9 24	8 26	10 25
InDesign Essentials	29 & 30	16 & 17 27 & 28	20 & 21	9 & 10 24 & 25	8 & 9 26 & 27	10 & 11 25 & 26
InDesign Advanced	—	—	—	—	1 & 2	—
eBooks: Creating ePubs	Available on request.
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad	Available on request.

CANBERRA Select a date to book online now	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept
InDesign Lite	29	—	20	—	26	8 Oct
InDesign Essentials	29 & 30	—	20 & 21	—	26 & 27	8 & 9 Oct
InDesign Advanced	—	—	—	4 & 5	—	—
eBooks: Creating ePubs	—	—	—	—	—	4 Oct
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad	—	—	—	—	—	2 & 3 Oct
InDesign Interactive PDFs	Available as private training only.
InDesign Accessibility	Available as private training only.