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Advanced Flash Interactivity and Production

( WT-1321-180 )


     Course DescriptionBack To Top

Course Offered in Partnership With DigitalThink

This course focuses on the advanced features of Flash 4. Students will learn interactivity, ActionScript, streamlining and optimization of movies, advanced Flash features, and advanced interactivity with movie clips.

During the course, students will have the opportunity to work on a series of projects that will give them a chance to put their new skills to use in the context of an actual business scenario.

This course requires the following software:

  • Macromedia Flash 4
  • Flash Player 4

    • This course requires a computer running Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, or LINUX; however, students will not be able to fully work with the download files on a UNIX or Linux platform.

    eMentoring Services are included with this course.

  • Course length: 8 hours

    • Course details
        id:      WT-1321-180
        subscription duration:  180 days
        list price:  $  325.00


     
         Languages Offered Back To Top

    This course is currently available in English only.

     
         Prerequisites Back To Top

    To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate completion of Essential Flash Concepts, or equivalent knowledge and experience
  • Demonstrate basic skills in Flash such as opening, creating, and saving movies, creating and modifying graphics, and using animation techniques.

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         Skills Gained Back To Top

    Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

  • Create and use masks in a movie
  • Create buttons and assign Actions to them
  • Create movie clips and control them with Tell Targeting
  • Create Actions and use variables
  • Control movie clips with Actions
  • Program with ActionScript
  • Streamline and optimize Flash movies
  • Preload Flash movies
  • Use Flash production tips
  • Recognize Flash's advanced capabilities

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         Related Courses Back To Top

  • Before: Essential Flash Concepts

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         Course Content Back To Top



    Module 1: Course introduction Back To Top

  • Course introduction
  • Prerequisites
  • What you need
  • Course resources
  • Your learning community
  • Meet your instructor
  • The course project


    • Module 2: More work with animation Back To Top

  • More work with animation
  • Manipulate frames in multiple layers
  • Create, modify, and work with scenes
  • Tweening and frame-by-frame animation
  • Using masks
  • Movie clips versus animated graphic symbols
  • Nesting symbols
  • Module wrap-up


    • Module 3: Introduction to interactivity Back To Top

  • Introduction to interactivity
  • Create a button symbol
  • The four button states
  • Actions and button states
  • Movie clips and button states
  • Simple Actions
  • Sound files
  • Add a sound to a movie
  • Attach a sound to a button
  • Streaming sound
  • Module wrap-up


    • Module 4: Advanced interactivity with movie clips Back To Top

  • Advanced interactivity with movie clips
  • Multiple movie clips
  • Creating Labels
  • Tell Targeting
  • Drag'n'drop
  • Module conclusion


    • Module 5: Introduction to increased functionality with ActionScript Back To Top

  • Introduction to increased functionality with ActionScript
  • The power of ActionScripts
  • Creating Actions
  • Variables
  • Expressions vs. literals
  • Movie clips and ActionScript
  • Properties
  • Operators
  • Comparisons and conditional statements
  • Loops
  • Built-in functions
  • Module wrap-up


    • Module 6: Streamlining and optimization of movies Back To Top

  • Streamlining and optimization of movies
  • Streamlining and optimizing a Flash movie
  • Preloading movies
  • Naming conventions
  • Modularity and movies
  • Production tips
  • Module wrap-up


    • Module 7: Other advanced features Back To Top

  • Other advanced features
  • Load movies
  • Global use of sounds
  • Dynamic Flash
  • Forms
  • Advanced programming with Flash
  • Integration with other applications
  • Module wrap-up


    • Module 8: Course conclusion Back To Top

  • Course conclusion
  • Where do you go from here?
  • We'd love your feedback
  • Course survey


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