You Will Learn How To
- Build and deploy cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and content with Adobe Flash
- Create engaging animations to attract and retain users
- Generate interactive dynamic content and special effects with ActionScript
- Connect to relational databases and XML datasets to build real-time, data-driven applications
- Encode and deliver streaming video to create innovative, mixed-media content
- Integrate and distribute Flash content on multiple platforms, including DVD, Web and Mobile
Course Benefits
Rich Internet Applications demand sophisticated content and delivery methods. Adobe Flash is a leading development tool that provides organisations with a fast, fluid environment for creating interactive applications that enhance the end-user experience. This hands-on course provides the essential skills necessary to develop, deploy and secure content and data-driven applications, including animation, streaming video and special effects.
Who Should Attend
Web developers, graphic designers and those who want to add Adobe Flash functionality to their sites. A background in Web development is helpful but not required.
Hands-On Training
Hands-on exercises provide experience creating and delivering Flash applications, including:
- Creating an application framework with buttons, graphics and sounds
- Integrating with Photoshop to manipulate bitmap graphics
- Building animations with motion and special effects
- Adding interactive functionality with ActionScript
- Connecting Flash to databases and XML
- Generating and streaming video
- Producing and distributing content to Adobe AIR and mobile devices
Course Content
Fundamentals of Adobe Flash
- Requirements of Rich Internet Applications
- Navigating the Flash IDE
- Exploring Flash capabilities
Building Flash Content
Analysing the interface
- Investigating toolbar functionality
- Synchronising content with the timeline
- Adjusting interface parameters with the properties window
Creating and importing assets
- Graphics
- Movie clips
- Buttons
- Constructing navigation menus
- Importing video, graphics and audio
- Leveraging Photoshop for graphic manipulation
Configuring Flash components
- Enhancing the user interface with the Component Library
- Extending Flash capabilities with third-party components
Bringing Flash to Life with Animation
Creating motion in scenes
- Producing movement with Shape and Motion Tweens
- Adding a motion path to control location
- Synchronising motion with sound
Achieving special effects
- Masking
- Dropshadows
- Explosions
- Silhouette
- Fading between multiple photographs
Building complex animation structures
- Creating nested movie clips
- Developing multiple scenes
- Forming animated buttons
- Animating in 3-D
Additional Animation Techniques
- Saving and reusing Motion Paths
- Utilising the Motion Editor and masking MovieClips
Developing Interactivity with ActionScript
Core language fundamentals
- Variables
- Objects
- Functions
- Making decisions and iterating through data
- Controlling application navigation
- Adding video and audio components
Handling application interaction
- Responding to user requests
- Gathering and validating user input
- Reacting to video and data events
Animating and styling content
- Creating motion without the timeline
- Adding a timed photo fade
- Formatting user interface components with CSS
Connecting to Data Sources
Working with XML
- Reading and parsing XML data with E4X
- Building a user interface with XML data
- Populating content areas
Accessing databases
- Receiving data through server-side scripts
- Populating the user interface with dynamic data
- Storing user input from a Flash application
Enhancing Flash Sites with Video
Encoding video for delivery
- Defining accepted video encoding formats
- Handling standards and bandwidth issues
- Transcoding video with multiple tools
- Employing High Definition (HD) video
Controlling playback
- Dynamically interacting with video
- Creating a full set of video playback options
- Building and loading video playlists
- Applying closed-captioning to online videos
Serving video content
- Comparing progressive downloading and streaming
- Delivering from a standard Web server
- Evaluating alternative open-source servers
Deploying Flash
Standard delivery methods
- Publishing to the Web
- Distributing by physical media
Alternative delivery methods
- Exploiting Adobe AIR
- Employing Flash Mobile
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