Total Training for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Essentials £54.78

Let Total Training show how to construct your own Flash sites from start to finish! Get the most out of Flash CS4 and learn how to manage rich media content, explore the brand new motion tween and presets animation tools, how to set up your site, and get it interactive with buttons and ActionScript, plus much more.



Lesson 1: CREATING & MANAGING CONTENT(32 min)
1. Touring the Flash Interface
2. New Document Settings & Navigation
3. Drawing & Selecting Simple Vector Shapes
4. Drawing Curves with the Pen & Pencil Tools
5. Exploring Other Drawing Tools
6. Interaction between Shapes
7. Grouping Objects
8. Working in Object Drawing Mode

Lesson 2: MANAGING WEBSITE CONTENT(10 min)
1. Working with Layers
2. Using Bitmaps
3. Adding Text
4. Use the Regular & Primitive Shape Tools to Build a Graphic
5. Creating & Adjusting a Symbol
6. Transforming Objects with the Free Transform Tool
7. Exploring Color Types & Gradients

Lesson 3: THE TIMELINE(20 min)
1. Timeline Basics
2. Create a Span of Frames & Control the Playhead
3. Creating Keyframes
4. Insert Blank Keyframes & Clear Keyframes
5. Frame-by-Frame Animation & Onion Skin

Lesson 4: MOTION PRESETS(35 min)
1. Getting Started with Motion Presets
2. Modifying a Motion Tween
3. Stretching Tween Spans
4. Save Custom Presets & Create Layer Folders
5. Moving Tween Spans
6. Setting Static Frames
7. Building a Test Movie

Lesson 5: CREATING A MOTION TWEEN(38 min)
1. Adding a Motion Tween
2. Setting Property Keyframes for Scale & Rotation
3. Creating a Motion Tween from a Shape
4. Easing Keyframes
5. Creating a Fade-in by Adjusting the Alpha
6. Making a Motion Preset

Lesson 6: ANIMATION TECHNIQUES(55 min)
1. Importing Slideshow Content
2. Working in a Movie Clip Timeline
3. Animating the First Image in the Slideshow
4. Non-linear Animation
5. Swapping Objects
6. Using the Distribute to Layers Command
7. Adjust Timeline View Options & Animation Timing

Lesson 7: ACTIONSCRIPT & BEHAVIORS(62 min)
1. Introducing ActionScript
2. Adding a Stop Action
3. Creating Buttons & Setting Button States
4. Creating Interactive Text Buttons
5. Adding Site Content
6. Setting up for ActionScript 2
7. Adding Behaviors with ActionScript 2
8. Writing ActionScript 3

Lesson 8: USING SOUND & VIDEO(43 min)
1. Adding a Sound File to the Timeline
2. Adding Sound to a Button
3. Encoding Video for Import into Flash
4. Set Import Options & Choose a Player Skin
5. The FLVPlayback Component & Component Inspector
6. Flash Video for ActionScript 2 & Older Players

Lesson 9: PUBLISHING YOUR SITE(40 min)
1. Overview of Flash Publish Settings
2. Compression in Bitmaps & Sounds
3. Other Flash Publish Settings
4. HTML Settings
5. Publishing Your Flash Movie
6. Dreamweaver® Integration
7. Uploading Your Site to a Server via FTP
8. Credits

• DVD Drive