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Training Course Summary:

Macromedia Flash MX 2004: 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.

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.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Unit 1: Introducing the Course
About the course
Course objectives
Course prerequisites
Course format
Internet applications: The big picture
Unit 2: Learning the Basics
Introducing Flash
Using the Flash interface
Creating a new Flash document
Unit 3: Creating Graphics
Importing graphics
Layering Flash elements
Organizing content in layer folders
Creating graphics
Using the natural drawing tools
Using color effectively
Creating a color swatch
Reusing graphics as symbols
Masking content
Unit 4: 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
Unit 5: Creating Animation
Introducing animation
Creating frame-by-frame animations
Creating motion tweens
Using motion guide layers
Creating shape tweens
Adding Timeline effects
Unit 6: Building a Navigational System
Creating buttons
Adding behaviors to buttons
Creating MovieClips
Using a MovieClip as a wrapper
Dividing files into multiple SWFs
Loading a SWF into a MovieClip
Unit 7: Using MovieClips for Interactive Rich Media
Using MovieClip events
Structuring applications using nested symbols
Building a MovieClip with different states
Using the Timeline for application states
Unit 8: Adding Sound and Video
Importing sounds
Using behaviors to load sounds
Adding video
Using the Flash video components
Unit 9: Publishing
Publishing Flash for web use
Using Flash and HTML together