Flash Training: Essential Skills II

Flash Training: Essential Skills II Overview

The Flash CS4/CS5 Essentials II course focuses on building a complete Flash-driven user experience that is both engaging and easy to maintain. This class is intended for Flash designers that want to introduce ActionScript 3.0 into their workflow to create actions, such as event handlers and code-driven animations. You will learn how properly use functions, methods, and the basics for coding with Flash. You will build a custom preloader, learn to display in full screen, create navigation controls and utilize third party APIs that can add functionality using little code. Learn how to properly plan and implement large Flash project using multiple external files and manipulating code to communicate in-between these files.

This course will also cover an in-depth look into Flash video by integrating After Effects and Flash to create rich video projects for the web. Learn what it takes to build a video presentation using keying, embedding sequence markers and understanding compression settings within After Effects. Import this composition into Flash and add interactivity using event and navigation Cue Points. You will also learn to create custom video skins with full-screen capabilities.