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Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

John Hersey

Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

with Todd Perkins

In Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training, author Todd Perkins explains the fundamentals of Flash Professional CS5, the industry standard for creating animations and interactive applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices. This course starts with the basics, such as using the drawing tools to create simple animations, and progresses to automating animation with tweens and adding interactivity with ActionScript. This course also covers how to add sound and video to projects, enhance realism with effects like easing, and publish a project to a variety of platforms. Exercise files are included.

Topics include:

Becoming familiar with the Flash workspace
Drawing basic shapes
Masking content
Organizing a file into layers
Importing content into the Library
Understanding symbols and instances
Inserting frames and keyframes in the Timeline
Animating with motion and shape tweens
Creating IK (Inverse Kinematics) animations
Using ActionScript code snippets to control video playback
Publishing HTML, SWF, and AIR files from Flash

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author: Todd Perkins
subject: Web
software: Flash Professional CS5, CS5.5
level: Beginner

duration: 7h 7m
released: Apr 30, 2010

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Introduction 2m 52s

Using the exercise files 41s

What is Flash Professional CS5? 52s

1. Getting to Know Flash 17m 26s

Understanding Flash file types 2m 11s

Becoming familiar with the Flash environment 1m 5s

Creating and setting document properties for an FLA file 1m 25s

Working with panels 4m 30s

Working with the toolbar 1m 21s

Using the Zoom and Hand tools 3m 6s

Understanding workspaces 2m 23s

Understanding bitmap and vector graphics 1m 25s

2. Drawing Basic Shapes 14m 42s

Understanding Merge Drawing and Object Drawing 3m 23s

Drawing lines using the Line tool 2m 43s

Using the Oval tool 2m 21s

Using the Rectangle tool 1m 41s

Using the Oval and Rectangle Primitive tools 1m 25s

Using the Polystar tool 1m 20s

Using the Deco tool 1m 49s

3. Moving Beyond Basic Shapes 50m 58s

Selecting lines and fills 3m 57s

Modifying lines and fills 2m 16s

Using the Pen tool 5m 25s

Using the Brush tool 5m 52s

Optimizing shapes for enhanced performance 1m 15s

Using the Eraser tool 1m 54s

Working with groups 2m 39s

Using the Eyedropper tool 1m 20s

Changing fill and stroke colors with the Paint Bucket and Ink Bottle tools 3m 30s

Using the Color panel 2m 50s

Using the Color Swatches panel 1m 51s

Creating gradients 2m 19s

Using the Gradient Transform tool 2m 4s

Using the Free Transform tool 3m 27s

Aligning objects with the Align panel 3m 57s

Using the 3D tools 4m 11s

Using rulers and guides 2m 11s

4. Working with Layers and the Timeline 17m 11s

Organizing a file into layers using Distribute to Layers 1m 35s

Organizing layers and editing layer properties 2m 52s

Using the Paste in Place command to organize layers 2m 9s

Showing, hiding, and locking layers 2m 11s

Creating masks and masked content 4m 32s

Creating guide layers 2m 22s

Viewing layers as outlines and changing layer outline colors 1m 30s

5. Working with External Images and the Library Panel 16m 29s

Understanding the library 3m 51s

Importing bitmap graphics 1m 15s

Updating the library with changed graphics 1m 29s

Adjusting bitmap compression in the Bitmap Properties window 3m 6s

Using the Lasso tool with bitmap images 4m 3s

Using bitmap fills 51s

Vectorizing bitmap graphics using the Trace Bitmap tool 1m 54s

6. Working with Text and Fonts 23m 0s

Understanding the Text Layout Framework 1m 54s

Using the Text tool for TLF text 5m 57s

Working with fixed and variable width text fields 3m 17s

Connecting text through multiple text fields 2m 25s

Working with Asian and right-to-left fonts 1m 7s

Embedding fonts 2m 25s

Using device fonts 2m 6s

Using the Break Apart command to convert text to fills 1m 16s

Using classic text 2m 33s

7. Using Graphic Symbols 20m 30s

Understanding symbols 2m 33s

Creating graphic symbols 3m 32s

Navigating through multiple timelines 2m 42s

Editing graphic symbols through the library 1m 43s

Understanding the Editing in Place mode 1m 41s

Differentiating symbols from instances 2m 23s

Applying color changes and transformations to instances of symbols 1m 55s

Swapping and duplicating symbols 2m 31s

Nesting symbols 1m 30s

8. Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations 29m 28s

Getting to know the timeline 1m 11s

Understanding frames, keyframes, and blank keyframes 2m 56s

Creating frames, keyframes, and blank keyframes 2m 53s

Selecting and removing frames 3m 15s

Creating a simple animation 3m 42s

Previewing an animation using Test Movie 1m 33s

Using onion skin 2m 43s

Using onion skin outlines 1m 34s

Copying and pasting frames 1m 45s

Editing multiple frames 3m 17s

Nesting an animation in a graphic symbol and controlling its starting frame 4m 39s

9. Creating Shape Tweens 7m 43s

Understanding shape tweens 2m 34s

Creating and removing a shape tween 1m 20s

Using Shape Hints 2m 28s

Troubleshooting shape tweens 1m 21s

10. Working with Motion Tweens and the Motion Editor 22m 19s

Understanding motion tweens 1m 19s

Creating and removing a motion tween 2m 24s

Working with Property keyframes in the timeline 2m 2s

Using motion tweens for parallax scrolling 2m 45s

Selecting, moving, and copying motion tweens 1m 55s

Editing a motion path 1m 32s

Adding rotation to an animation 4m 7s

Animating color and alpha changes with a motion tween 1m 49s

Animating text, bitmaps, and other objects 1m 53s

Animating 3D objects 1m 17s

Converting a motion tween to a frame-by-frame animation 1m 16s

11. Fine-Tuning Motion Tweens 28m 13s

Understanding the Motion Editor 2m 45s

Using the Motion Editor to modify a motion tween 3m 7s

Adding and removing property keyframes with the Motion Editor 2m 50s

Adding easing in the Properties panel 2m 11s

Adding easing in the Motion Editor 4m 56s

Modifying custom easing curves in the Motion Editor 4m 5s

Extending and shortening animations 2m 1s

Using the Motion Presets panel to save and apply animations 2m 9s

Reversing an animation 48s

Creating nested animations 3m 21s

12. Adding Inverse Kinematics with the Bone Tool 15m 16s

Understanding Inverse Kinematics 54s

Using the Bone tool 2m 28s

Adjusting bone properties in the Properties panel 2m 28s

Creating IK animations 2m 4s

Staggering IK animations using graphic symbols 2m 57s

Creating runtime IK interactivity 1m 9s

Adding spring to IK animations 2m 9s

Converting an IK animation to a frame-by-frame animation 1m 7s

13. Creating Classic Tweens 8m 46s

Understanding classic tweens 1m 0s

Creating a classic tween 1m 6s

Troubleshooting classic tweens 1m 22s

Adjusting easing in a classic tween 1m 7s

Editing easing curves in a classic tween 1m 46s

Using classic tweens for character animation 2m 25s

14. Working with Button Symbols 6m 49s

Understanding button symbols 53s

Creating button symbols 2m 35s

Adding layers to button symbols 1m 27s

Creating invisible buttons 1m 54s

15. Working with Movie Clips 8m 5s

Understanding and creating movie clips 2m 9s

Converting a graphic symbol to a movie clip 1m 43s

Creating seamlessly looping animations with movie clips 2m 23s

Using movie clips to create animated buttons 1m 50s

16. Working with Filters and Blend Modes 9m 29s

Understanding blend modes 2m 14s

Applying blend modes to objects 1m 27s

Understanding filters 2m 53s

Applying filters to objects 2m 55s

17. Working with Audio 13m 7s

Understanding audio in Flash 2m 11s

Importing and adding audio to an animation 1m 25s

Compressing audio with the library 3m 10s

Controlling sound effects through the Properties panel 1m 44s

Syncing sound to an animation 3m 17s

Adding sound to a button 1m 20s

18. Working with Video 12m 12s

Understanding video in Flash 1m 16s

Using the Adobe Media Encoder to encode video 2m 8s

Importing video 2m 15s

Using the FLV playback component 2m 34s

Working with cue points 3m 59s

19. Adding Interactivity with ActionScript 24m 29s

Understanding ActionScript 3.0 2m 22s

Working with the Actions panel 2m 41s

Understanding code snippets 2m 9s

Using code snippets to stop a timeline 1m 28s

Using code snippets to navigate a timeline 2m 55s

Using code snippets to create a hyperlink 2m 7s

Using code snippets to control video 6m 35s

Using code snippets to stop sounds from playing 1m 2s

Using Flash templates for pre-built interactivity 1m 28s

Using behaviors with ActionScript 2.0 1m 42s

20. Integrating with Other Applications 14m 10s

Integrating with Photoshop 4m 10s

Integrating with Illustrator 2m 58s

Integrating with Flash Builder 4m 16s

Integrating with Flash Catalyst 1m 21s

Integrating with Dreamweaver 1m 25s

21. Publishing Flash Content 15m 20s

Understanding publishing in Flash 1m 35s

Controlling HTML settings in the Publish Settings window 2m 39s

Adjusting SWF publish settings 2m 9s

Publishing for search engine optimization with SWFObject 4m 31s

Publishing and exporting image files 2m 40s

Publishing and exporting video files 1m 46s

22. Creating a Slideshow Project 27m 18s

Viewing the finished slideshow 1m 18s

Importing photos into Flash 2m 33s

Animating slideshow images 1m 53s

Modifying animations with the Motion Editor 3m 26s

Saving and reusing animations 1m 4s

Finishing the animation 2m 43s

Adding sound 1m 4s

Adding button interactivity 6m 31s

Adjusting image and sound compression 3m 2s

Publishing the application 3m 44s

23. Creating Desktop Applications Using Adobe AIR 6m 27s

Understanding Adobe AIR 41s

Viewing a simple AIR application 1m 37s

Publishing an AIR application 4m 9s

24. Using Flash CS5 to Create iPhone Applications 14m 55s

Understanding Flash on the iPhone 21s

Preparing to create iPhone content Flash on the iPhone 2m 19s

Generating a P12 file in Windows 6m 41s

Viewing a simple iPhone app in Flash 1m 43s

Publishing an iPhone app from Flash 3m 11s

Testing a Flash iPhone app on an iPhone 40s

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