Introduction to Flash

• The Flash Interface
• Flash and HTML
• How Flash movies work - streaming and vectors
• Finding your way around Flash
• What Flash can and can't do

Flash basics

• Setting Movie properties
• Using Vector-based paint and draw tools
• Creating & editing shapes and working with shapes and elements
• Grouping elements
• Using panels and shortcuts for efficiency.

Creating vector graphics

• Lines and brush strokes
• Drawing lines, rectangles and ovals
• Smoothing/straightening lines and curves
• Using grids and rules
• Aligning objects
• Using gradients and fills
• Creating and editing custom colours and fills
• Using colours to create 3d and light effects

Text

• Creating and editing text
• Breaking apart and reshaping text
• Adjusting weighting, font, style and alignment

Transformations

• Rotating, skewing, scaling and flipping
• Free Transform

Layers and Keyframes

• Locking layers and colour coding layers
• Using Mask and masked layers
• Understanding frames and keyframes

Creating simple animations

• Using the Timeline Frames and keyframes
• Using the onion skin and outline colours mode
• Frame by frame animations

More animation features

• Creating tweened animations
• Shape and motion tweening
• Creating animations along a path

Symbols and Instances

• Working with symbols
• Creating and editing symbols
• Assigning properties to instances
• Using the Edit symbol Commands
• Applying transparency to colours and gradients

Images

• Direct import of layered images from other Adobe products such as Photoshop
• Do’s and don’t’s when importing images

Interactivity

• Explaining actions and event-handlers
• Types of actions
• Adding actions to buttons and keyframes
• Giving control to the user
• Nesting symbols
• Creating animated buttons
• Making interactive links to other scenes and URLs

Sound

• Importing sound
• Adding sound to a scene and adding sound to buttons
• Synchronising sound
• Streaming audio with MP3 compression

Video

• Flash video codecs explained
• Video streaming modes explained
• Using the video import wizard
• How to deploy video

Components

• Introduction to components
• Changing component parameters
• Changing the appearance of components

Management

• Using the library to organise elements
• Using the Movie Explorer to keep track of elements

Testing and Publishing

• Using the bandwidth profiler
• Streaming and streamlining your movie
• Using the Publish command
• Inserting a preloader