Adobe Flash CS4

Bring Your Creations to Life with Interactive Animation

Course Description: This course introduces the student to the basics of using Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. Beginning with a simple introductory animation project, this course guides through the beginning concepts and techniques necessary to put this software tool to use creating animations, games and user interfaces.

Author: Scott Anderson

Runtime: 5hr. 37min.

Lessons: 50

Lessons	Time (Min:Sec)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Flash
Understanding the Workspace PREVIEW, CLICK HERE	06:09
Introduction to Tools and Shapes PREVIEW, CLICK HERE	04:21
Symbols and the Library PREVIEW, CLICK HERE	04:16
Tweening and Motion Guides	06:18
Movie Clip Control and Interactivity	07:53
Interactivity	10:53
Publishing	04:25
Chapter 2: Getting Objects onto the Stage
The Toolbox	01:52
The Rectangle Tool and Other Shape Tools	13:55
The Selection Tool and Shape Manipulation	11:31
Introduction to Layers	07:20
The Line, Pencil, and Pen Tools	06:47
The Paint Bucket, Deco, and Ink Bottle Tools	05:32
The Brush and Eraser Tools	06:38
The Text Tool	03:18
Colors and Gradients	05:27
Rulers and Grids	04:33
Chapter 3: Animating Objects
Symbols and Instances	04:43
Manipulating Symbol Instances	03:43
Editing Symbols	10:45
Motion Tweens and Easing	08:36
Motion Guides and the Motion Editor	04:38
Layers, Keyframes, and Multiple Instances	09:42
Complex Motion—Tweens within Tweens	10:11
Shape Tweens	06:13
Multi-Layered Objects and Tweens	09:46
Chapter 4: ActionScript Part 1 — Movie Clip Control
The Actions Panel and the Movie Explorer	04:46
Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript	08:56
Functions and Methods	02:47
Movie Clip Control with ActionScript 1	11:14
Movie Clip Control with ActionScript 2	10:33
Chapter 5: ActionScript Part 2 — Programming Concept
Conditional Statements	09:07
Looping Statements	03:50
Chapter 6: ActionScript Part 3 — Events and Interactivity
Event Concepts	01:04
Movie Clip Events	06:14
Mouse and Keyboard Events 1	09:15
Mouse and Keyboard Events 2	08:38
Buttons	01:38
Button Timelines	04:29
Dynamic Text Fields and Forms	06:58
Chapter 7: Importing Files
Non-Flash Graphics	03:59
Working with Sound	09:59
Working with Video	02:37
Chapter 8: Exporting Files
Publishing Overview	01:17
Publishing Defaults – SWF and HTML Files	04:07
Other Publishing Options	02:00
Chapter 9: File Organization
Flash Files Review	01:36
Uploading to the Server	01:36
Chapter 10: Users of Previous Versions
Differences in Flash CS4	04:56
Working with ActionScript 3.0	04:15