AdobeFlash is a piece of software that actually lives up to its name: the software is a designers dream and it can be used for a variety of creative purposes from web design to complicated animation techniques. If you have ever seen a quirky animation online, it is most likely that it was created in Flash.

Students finishing this course will have at least one completed fully functional Flash project for their portfolios demonstrating a strong knowledge of the tool and a good foundation in the ActionScript language as the tool and the language apply to instructional design.

Outline

Working in Flash

• Setting Stage dimensions
• Working with panels and panel layouts
• Setting preferences
• Identifying the development cycle
• Publishing a file

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

• Working with different graphic formats
• Importing bitmap graphics
• Importing vector graphics
• Working with layers and layer folders
• Using the drawing tools
• Using object and merge drawing
• Working with the Colour panels
• Creating and using Graphic symbols
• Using the Library panel
• Using the Text tool
• Adding and formatting static text

Creating Animations

• Working with the Timeline
• Using keyframes, blank keyframes, and frames
• Creating motion tweens
• Creating shape tweens
• Creating transition effects
• Using animation best practice

Using Masks to Create Special FX

• The process of creating masks
• Creating a magifying effect using masks

Using and Controlling Audio

• Adding sound effects to events
• Adding soundtracks to the timeline
• Adding sounds to buttons

Using and controlling Video Clips

• Importing and using video in Flash
• Adding a built in video controller
• Adding chapter selection buttons

Basic Actions and Introduction to Buttons

• Understand the Actions panel
• Understand some of the basics and possibilities of actionscripting
• Add actions to frames
• Assign frame labels and comments
• Create named anchors
• Control movie playback
• Create basic buttons
• Assign actions to your buttons

Multimedia Development Project 1

• Adobe Photoshop and Interface Design
• Import Images from photoshop
• Re Design Layout in Adobe Flash
• Creating a Button object
• Preloader:a progress bar and percentage preloader
• Loading External SWF files
• Adding sound and Video

Publishing Flash Project

• Using different publishing formats
• Using publishing profiles
• Adding Flash Player detection
• Publishing for deployment