Pre-requisites: Macromedia Flash Rich Media Design provides students with no prior Flash experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create rich media containing animation, sound, and video.

Duration: 2-Day
Start & Finish Times: 10am to 5pm

Who should attend: This course is for people new to Flash (or who have used it only to build applications) that want to use it to build rich media applications that effectively use animation, sound, and video.

Overview of Content

Learning the Basics Introducing Flash, Using the Flash interface, Creating a new Flash document

Creating Graphics Importing graphics, Layering Flash elements, Organizing content in layer folders, Creating graphics, Using the natural drawing tools, Using colour effectively, Creating a colour swatch, Reusing graphics as symbols, Masking content

Using Text Effectively Using the Text tool, Creating input, static, and dynamic text fields, Using embedded or device fonts, Manipulating font properties, Building forms in Flash, Using the text property to populate fields, Anti-aliasing text, Using text components in Flash

Creating Animation Introducing animation, Creating frame-by-frame animations, Creating motion tweens, Using motion guide layers, Creating shape tweens, Adding Timeline effects

Building a Navigational System Creating buttons, Adding behaviours to buttons, Creating MovieClips, Using a MovieClip as a wrapper, Dividing files into multiple SWFs, Loading a SWF into a MovieClip

Using MovieClips for Interactive Media Using MovieClip events, Structuring applications using nested symbols, Building a MovieClip with different states, Using the Timeline for application states

Adding Sound and Video Importing sounds, Using behaviours to load sounds, Adding video, Using the Flash video components, Unit 9: Publishing, Publishing Flash for web use, Using Flash and HTML together

Public Course Cost. £510.00
Reward Price. NA

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