Adobe Flash outline

Create and deliver rich interactive content

Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 software is the industry standard for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution.
Modules are approximatley 3 hours long.

Module 1: Introduction to Flash

  • Understand what is going on when you view a Flash file,
  • where Flash works now, where it is going
  • Set up your movie, and your project
  • Import and editing artwork from other applications
  • Understand and use Flash drawing tools

Module 2: Basic Animation Techniques

  • Controlling Playback
  • Frames vs. keyframes
  • Layers within Flash
  • Motion tweening
  • Color effects
  • Traditional (keyframe) animation within the Flash environment
  • Adobe Flash Intermediate

Module 3: Advanced Animation

  • Masking
  • Easing
  • Path Animation
  • Shape Morphing

Module 4: Interactivity, Publishing and Complex Content Creation

  • Publishing
  • Movie Clips
  • Buttons
  • Interactivity
  • Bone Tool
  • Practice Project (bringing it all together)
  • Adobe Flash ActionScript 3.0

Module 5: Intro to Action Scripting

  • Understanding Methods
  • Understanding ActionScript structure
  • Working with variables and data types
  • Creating a function
  • Creating an event listener
  • Create a URL request
  • Debug Flash Scripts
  • Targeting a Movie Clip

Module 6: Interactivity Presentations

  • Creating detailed interactive actions
  • Capture keyboard events
  • Build a stand-alone Flash Presentation
  • Affect the properties of a Movie Clip

Module 5: Download Time and Flash Extras

  • Testing download time
  • Improving download performance
  • Building a preloader
  • Adding video to Flash
  • Pre-built components – create a scroll box

Module 6: Animating with ActionScript and Load Movies

  • Tips for large movies
  • Load external SWF
  • Load SWF into a placeholder
  • Animate with ActionScript
  • Ease with ActionScript