Fast Track to Flash CS4
Why Flash?
Learn the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Flash CS4 is the ideal application for creating interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, games, and more. Designers and developers depend on Flash and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player software to ensure their content reaches the widest possible audience.
Who should do this course?
This course is for people new to Flash that want to use it to build rich media applications that effectively use animation, sound and video.
About the course:
This is an introductory course that provides designers and developers new to the Flash environment the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create rich Flash content. Students will produce an engaging interface using text, graphics, animations, video and sound. Simple user interactions are added using built in ActionScript 2.0 behaviors and the Script Assist functionality. In addition to teaching essentials, the course focuses on teaching best practices for creating Flash content.
Quick Facts
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Beginner |
Price: |
$1100.00 incl GST |
You will receive: |
| Duration: |
2 Days |
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2 Students - 10% |
- Certificate of completion |
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10 |
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3 Students - 15% |
- Training Manual |
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9.00am to 5.00pm approx |
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4 Students - 20% |
- 12 months FREE email support* |
| Pre-requisites: |
Refer to course description |
Bonus: |
2 FREE |
- FREE class re-sit (if necessary)* |
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Flash_CS4_FT.pdf |
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Upcoming Courses
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Sydney
Level 11, 32 Walker Street
North Sydney
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- Date:
- 18-19 Mar 10
- 06-07 Apr 10
- 29-30 Apr 10
- 17-18 May 10
- 10-11 Jun 10
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Melbourne
Level 12, 379 Collins Street
Melbourne
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- Date:
- 08-09 Apr 10
- 03-04 May 10
- 03-04 Jun 10
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Brisbane
C/- Support Technology, Level 6, 371 Queen St
Brisbane
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- Date:
- 15-16 Apr 10
- 13-14 May 10
- 07-08 Jun 10
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Canberra
C/- Training Choice, Level 12, 15 London Circuit
Canberra
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Date: upon demand
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Adelaide
C/- Mindfull Computer & Seminar, Level 4, 74 Pirie Street
Adelaide
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Date: upon demand
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For more information on dates or locations, please call
1300 888 724 or
enquire online.
Course Units
- Unit 1: Introducing the Course
- - Understanding the course format
- - Course Objectives
- - Prerequisites
- - Course Outline
- - Demonstration: The final outcome - what you’ll produce in this course
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- Unit 2: Developing with Flash CS4
- - Flash development scope
- - Flash development methodology and workflow
- - Flash interface overview
- - Creating new Flash Documents
- - Setting preferences
- - Publishing Flash files
- - Setting document properties
- - Including metadata
- - Setting Accessibility
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- Unit 3: Creating and Importing Graphic Assets
- - Working with different graphic formats
- - Working with layers and layer folders
- - Guides and guide layers
- - Using Flash vector drawing tools
- - Using object and merge drawing
- - Working with the Color and Swatches panels
- - Importing vector graphics
- - Importing bitmap graphics
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- Unit 4: Using the Library and Symbols
- - Using the Library panel effectively
- - Flash Symbol types and their usage
- - Creating Symbols
- - Editing Symbols
- - Using the Deco tool
- - Using the Spray Brush Tool
- - Working with button symbols
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- Unit 5: Using Text and Components
- - Using and formatting Text
- - Input Text Field usage
- - Embedding Fonts
- - Using UI Components
- - Insert a component using the Component panel
- - Skinning UI Components
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- Unit 6: Timeline Animation
- - The Flash Timeline
- - Animation basics
- - Motion tweens
- - 3D graphics in Flash
- - 3D Rotation Tool
- - Shape tweens
- - Best practices
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- Unit 7: Introduction to ActionScript
- - ActionScript Overview
- - Ways of working with ActionScript
- - Adding actions to a Frame to load external files
- - Adding actions to a Button to load external files
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- Unit 8: Using MovieClips
- - MovieClip hierarchy
- - Using frame labels
- - Using ScriptAssist to control a MovieClip Timeline
- - Using Behaviors to control a MovieClip Timeline
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- Unit 9: Using Sound and Video
- - Using Sounds in Flash
- - Set audio compression settings
- - Use Button Sounds
- - Use Timeline Sounds
- - Sound Effects
- - Use the FLVPlayback component
- - Configure the FLVPlayback component
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- Unit 10: Publishing Flash Movies
- - Flash publishing formats
- - Publish settings
- - Flash Player detection
- - Considerations for published file size and accessible content
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