InDesign CS5 Interactivity & Animation Training: $595
Course Description
Learn how to prepare your InDesign documents to include rich media elements, such as Flash movies, 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. Students receive Chris Converse's "Create Interactive Documents Using Adobe InDesign CS5" as an after course reference.
It is essential that students have at least 1 to 2 years solid experience with InDesign or have completed the 2 day Adobe InDesign Essentials course. See course outline below, for more details.
Course Outline
Setup for Interactivity & Animation
- Interactive PDF workspaces
- Supported file formats: PDF, SWF, XHTML and ePub, SWFs
- Best Preferences for Interactivity
- Colour: CMYK vs RGB
Interactive PDFs: Links, Buttons & Navigation
- Creating Hyperlinks
- Converting URLs to Hyperlinks
- Generating Bookmarks
- Creating Buttons
- Assigning behaviours using the Buttons Panel
- Events and Actions
- Creating Show / Hide buttons
- Using Sound & Video
- Controlling View and Zoom behaviour
- Buttons: Rollovers and States
- Hotspots and creating Tool tips
- Multi-State Objects
- Adding a button to enter Full Screen mode
- Including an animation in your PDF
- Adding Page Transitions
- Preview Panel
- Presentation Mode
- Interactive PDF Export
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
Other Adobe InDesign
COURSES
| MELBOURNE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign Lite | 19 30 |
20 | 13 | 16 | 8 30 |
21 |
| InDesign Essentials | 19 & 20 30 & 31 |
20 & 21 | 15 & 16 | 16 & 17 | 8 & 9 30 & 31 |
21 & 22 |
| InDesign Advanced: |
— | 22 & 23 | 29 & 30 | — | 10 & 11 | 25 & 26 |
| InDesign Advanced Long Documents |
— | 22 | 29 | — | 10 | 25 |
| eBooks: Creating ePubs | — | 8 & 9 | — | 4 & 5 | 28 & 29 | — |
| eMagazines: InDesign to iPad | 19 & 20 | — | 5 & 6 | — | 1 & 2 | 28 & 29 |
| BRISBANE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign Lite | — | 13 | 6 | — | 1 | 6 25 |
| InDesign Essentials | 30 & 31 |
13 & 14 | 6 & 7 | 2 & 3 | 1 & 2 | 6 & 7 25 & 26 |
| InDesign Advanced | — | — | 19 & 20 | — | — | 27 & 28 |
| InDesign Long Documents | — | — | 19 | — | — | 27 |
| InDesign Interactivity & Animation | — | — | 12 | — | — | 29 |
| eMagazines: InDesign to iPad | — | — | 13 & 14 | — | — | 4 & 5 July |
| eBooks: Creating ePubs | Currently not available as a public course in Brisbane. Private training can be organised onsite. | |||||
