Adobe Flash CS4 / CS3 Training Video

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• 1. Introduction

  • Welcome

• 2. Getting Started

  • The New CS3 Interface
  • The New CS4 Interface (CS4)
  • Setting up a Productive Workspace
  • Modifying a Document's Properties
  • The Stage and Pasteboard
  • The Timeline and Layers
  • Scenes

• 3. Drawing Tools

  • Object and Merge Drawing (CS4)
  • Drawing Basics: Rectangle Tool
  • Sphere and Oval Tools
  • Primitive Shapes
  • Pencil and Line Tools
  • Pen Tool
  • Selecting and Deleting Content
  • Modifying Content
  • The Free Transform Tool
  • Advanced Drawing Techniques
  • The Art Deco Tool (CS4)

• 4. Colour

  • Colour and Swatches Palettes
  • Working with Gradients

• 5. Text Tools

  • Text Boxes
  • Text Types
  • Text Formatting
  • Spellchecking

• 6. Working with Images

  • Different Types of Images
  • Trace Bitmap Feature and Breaking Apart Bitmaps
  • Ensuring Best Quality for Export

• 7. Symbols & Instances

  • Creating Symbols
  • Button Symbol Type and Button States
  • Symbol Editing
  • Overview of the Library
  • Organizing the Library
  • 9-Slice Scaling
  • Filters and Blends
  • Components

• 8. Concepts of Animation

  • Understanding Flash Animation
  • Frame by Frame Animation
  • Onion Skinning
  • Multiple Frames Tool
  • Frame Rate
  • Ways to Copy Animation

• 9. Shape Tweens

  • Creating a Shape Tween
  • Creating Shape Hints
  • Multiple Shape Tweens at One Time

• 10. Motion Tweens (CS4)

  • The New Tween Model (CS4)
  • Creating a Motion Tween (CS4)
  • Using Motion Paths - Part 1 (CS4)
  • Using Motion Paths - Part 2 (CS4)
  • Using the Motion Editor (CS4)
  • Built in Motion Presets (CS4)
  • Saving Motion Presets (CS4)
  • Nesting Animations (CS4)

• 11. Masks

  • Creating a Mask
  • Animating a Mask

• 12. Overview of Actionscript

  • Comparing Actionscript 1,2 and 3
  • The Actions Panel
  • Linking to a Specific Frame and Frame Labels
  • Linking to a Website

• 13. Working with Sound

  • Importing Sound
  • Sound Types and Editing

• 14. Working with Video

  • Embed Vs. External Video
  • Using the Adobe Media Encoder (CS4)

• 15. Working with the Bone Tool (CS4)

  • Inverse Kinetics with the Bone Tool (CS4)
  • Creating Bones (CS4)
  • Bone Animation (CS4)

• 16. Working with 3D (CS4)

  • Using the 3D Rotation and Translation Tools (CS4)
  • Animating in 3D (CS4)

• 17. Integration

  • Direct Import of Photoshop Files
  • Direct Import of Illustrator Files
  • The Concept Behind XFL Files
  • Integration with other Adobe Products (CS4)

• 18. Previewing

  • Testing your Movie
  • The Bandwidth Profiler and Simulating Download

• 19. Publishing

  • Publish Settings
  • Publishing Flash and HTML
  • Publishing to a Projector File
  • Exporting to Adobe Air (CS4)

• 20. Exercises

  • Banner Intro
  • Banner Exercise - Part 1
  • Banner Exercise - Part 2
  • Banner Exercise - Part 3
  • Banner Exercise - Part 4
  • Banner Exercise - Part 5
  • Banner Exercise - Part 6
  • Cross Fading Pictures
  • Importing Dynamic Text from an External File
  • Using a Custom Cursor

This Flash Tutorial Video is just like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each stage step-by-step and offering helpful tips and techniques that will increase your creativity and boost your workflow. The training comprises of a series of lessons with each lesson covering a slightly more complex topic than the one prior, you will be amazed just how much you can learn and retain in such a short space of time. By the conclusion of this Flash Training Video your creative skills will be limited only by your own imagination.