Flash Training Videos - Tutorials

Author: Mordy Golding | Running Time: 3.75 hours | Training Level : Beginner

From understanding the similarities and differences between the interfaces and workflows to working with colors, symbols, and text to using mobile applications, there is a lot to learn about integrating Illustrator CS3 and Flash CS3. In Illustrator CS3 and Flash CS3 Professional Integration , Adobe Certified Expert Mordy Golding fully explains every aspect of incorporating these two applications, turning users into experts. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Author: Todd Perkins | Running Time: 7.5 hours | Training Level : Beginner

To fully take advantage of Flash CS3, it's necessary to have a comprehensive understanding of ActionScript 3.0. From manipulating movie clips and responding to user actions with variables to writing functions and conditional operators, ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Training Essentials covers the vital skills necessary to master ActionScript 3.0. Instructor Todd Perkins uses numerous hands-on examples-including two game-building exercises-to explore ActionScript's powerful features. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Author: Rich Shupe | Running Time: 8 hours | Training Level : Beginner

In this Beginners Adobe Flash CS3 Training DVD, instructor Rich Shupe delves into the key aspects of working with Adobe Flash CS3 to create professional animations, design interactive websites, and incorporate audio and video into self-contained presentations. The Flash training covers using the drawing and color tools, mastering the essentials of animation, and working with type, graphics, sound, and video. Rich also introduces the essentials of working with ActionScript 3.0. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Author: Cris Ippolite | Running Time: 2 hours | Training Level : Intermediate

By combining the rich features of Flash and FileMaker, users can create applications with significantly increased capabilities and more robust design. Strong Flash vector-based client-server applications become stronger when featuring a dynamic FileMaker back end, while embedded vector graphics add usability and depth of content to FileMaker databases. Both Flash experts and FileMaker developers will benefit from instructor Cris Ippolite's step-by-step approach to the challenges of integrating these two programs. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Author: Mordy Golding | Running Time: 3.5 hours | Training Level : Beginner

Working with Adobe's two most powerful vector applications doesn't need to be difficult, especially when using them together effectively. Instructor Mordy Golding shows how to set up Illustrator with Flash in mind, how to work with groups, layers and styles, and explains 3D effects and artwork mapping. Golding also demonstrates how to work with type, how to create and use symbols, and provides insider hints and guidelines. Emphasis is on creating Illustrator files that will work most efficiently and smoothly in Flash using Live Paint, Live Trace, and Live Effects. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Author: Lee Brimelow | Running Time: 2.5 hours | Training Level : Beginner

For those ready to combine professional motion graphics from Adobe After Effects 7 with interactive applications created in Adobe Flash 8, this tutorial is the first stop. From discussing the differences between Flash and After Effects to showing how to seamlessly import and export vector animations from each application, Lee Brimelow explains everything involved in using the two applications in unison. The tutorial covers working with third party plug-ins, exporting QuickTime from Flash, using the Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform effects, and creating special effects in After Effects for use in Flash. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.

Author: Phil Heinz | Running Time: 6.25 hours | Training Level : Intermediate

While Flash Professional 8 is well known for its vector animation capabilities, it is also well suited for building powerful custom database applications. In This Adobe Flash Training DVD: Building Data-Driven Applications Phil Heinz teaches users how to connect to data sources using Web-based scripting languages, such as ASP, PHP, or Perl, or using Web application servers, such as ColdFusion or Java. Phil also shows how to use always-on socket connections to make real-time data-driven applications, such as multiplayer games, chat rooms, and dashboard applications. Using static XML files to simulate data from any data source, he takes viewers through the process of importing and handling data from a database inside Flash Professional 8 to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along with the tutorials at your own pace.

Author: John Ulliman | Running Time: 20 hours | Training Level : Beginner

This training series produced in HD includes over 24 hours of indexed tutorials on the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive web sites. You will dramatically expand your knowledge of Flash and its extensive capabilities.

Author: Shane Rebenschied | Running Time: 10 hours | Training Level : Intermediate

This Advanced Flash Professional 8 Training DVD will take your Flash skills to the next level, In this advanced Flash Professional 8 Beyond the Basics , Shane Rebenschied will expand your Flash skill set by guiding you through the production of a complete website built with Flash and ActionScript. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along with the tutorials and learn at your own pace.

Author: Lee Brimelow | Running Time: 7 hours | Training Level : Intermediate

Do you want to learn how to combine the appeal of video with the rich interactivity of Flash? If so, this Adobe Flash 8 Training Video with Lee Brimelow is the tutorial for you. The training will teach you how to use video in Flash Professional 8 to create everything from online sales brochures to full-length features. In this comprehensive tutorial, Lee takes you from the idea stage to a finished, professional production. Lee demonstrates how to best prepare video for use in Flash, encode footage, choose between embedding or streaming video, and design and create a Flash video player. He also explains advanced techniques with filters, web cam video, and much more. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along with the tutorials and learn at your own pace.

Author: Michael Ninness | Running Time: 2.5 hours | Training Level : Intermediate

Photoshop CS2 & Flash 8 Integration is a series of video-based tutorials designed to show you the most efficient methods for importing content created with Adobe Photoshop CS2 into Macromedia Flash Professional 8, while maintaining as much of the original appearance as possible. You will learn how to take advantage of the new bitmap features in Flash Professional 8, such as filters and blend modes. The tutorials will also show you how to control the optimization settings in Flash for bitmap images when they are embedded inside exported SWF files, and how to load external bitmaps into Flash movies.

Author: Robert Hoekman, Jr. | Running Time: 4 hours | Training Level : Beginner

Flash User Experience Best Practices offers solutions to common user experience issues that Flash designers and developers face every day. Topics shown include: making the browser Back button work with the Flash Player, handling state management, implementing effective Flash detection with useful alternate content, improving scanability and workflow in your applications, and helping users maintain context while working with your applications. Throughout the training videos, Robert Hoekman, Jr., shows you real-world examples and demonstrates techniques for improving the experiences you create. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Please note that while this training title is relevant regardless of which version of Flash you are using, if you wish to follow along with the exercise files, you will need Flash 8 to open the files.

Author: Shane Rebenschied | Running Time: 11.5 hours | Training Level : Beginner

This Beginners Adobe Flash Professional 8 Training DVD with Shane Rebenschied teaches new users how to use the drawing tools, swatches, and color panels in Flash 8. The video tutorials walk learners through animation processes, and how to integrate type, graphics, audio, and video. Shane teaches you how to use ActionScript for common projects such as creating slide shows, pop-up menus, and scrolling text. The Flash training ends with instruction on how to publish to the Web or CD-ROM.

Author: Shane Rebenschied | Running Time: 12.5 hours | Training Level : beginner

In this Flash MX 2004 Training DVD Shane Rebenschied shows you how to integrate Audio and Video in to your Flash movie, this movie-based tutorial designed to help more experienced Flash users learn a variety of methods for integrating audio and video into Flash MX 2004 projects. The training begins with gathering and compressing media, then quickly advances to cover best ways to add music and sounds to Flash projects, creating a dynamic MP3 jukebox, dynamic audio fade ins/fade outs, using the advanced media components in Flash MX 2004 Professional to create audio and video players, building your own customized video player, compressing and creating Flash video files (FLV's), layering other graphical elements on top of video for seamless design integration, and much more. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along with the tutorials and learn at your own pace.

Author: Shane Rebenschied | Running Time: 18 hours | Training Level : Intermediate

This Advanced Flash MX 2004 Training DVD with Shane Rebenschied is a practical, example based tutorial that takes you 'Beyond the Basics' with Macromedia Flash MX 2004. During the course of this tutorial, you will learn intermediate to advanced level Macromedia Flash techniques by constructing a Web site entirely within Flash MX 2004. You will learn how to make a Web site dynamic and easy to update by loading external text and images, styling text with a combination of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), building a dynamic slideshow, creating a preloader, a feedback form, and more, all using the latest ActionScript techniques in Flash MX 2004. These tutorials are right for those who know Flash but feel uncertain about the strategies and workflow related to creating a finished presentation or web site. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along with the tutorials and learn at your own pace.

Author: Shane Rebenschied | Running Time: 14 hours | Training Level : Beginner

This Flash MX 2004 Training DVD with Shane Rebenschied is a workshop of movie based tutorials developed for beginning Flash users. The training walk you through the essential features of the authoring tool including drawing tools, importing bitmaps and vectors, animation, masking, working with Symbols, ActionScripting basics, music and sound effects, video, the deconstruction of a complete Flash site, and much more! These tutorials are ideal for beginners / intermediates.