Flash MX - Intermediate

Course Length: One Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £550 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: Macromedia Flash MX is the fastest way to create rich Internet content and applications. The powerful video, multimedia and application development features allow the creation of rich user interfaces, online advertising, e-Learning courses and more.

This course introduces delegates to work with symbols and instances, create extensive Timelines with independent animations, build more complex navigation controls, work with sound, and optimise your movies for viewing by your intended audience.

Course Objectives:

	Identify the advantages that symbol use has in building a Flash movie, identify and create the three types of symbols, and manage symbols within a movie using the Library palette
	Use scenes to organise content in large complex Timelines, and create frame labels to mark critical points in your Timeline
	Add advanced playback controls and interactive elements to a Flash movie (including remote rollovers and expanding menus), and create preloaders to ensure smooth playback of larger movie files over slow connections
	Import sounds into a project, work with sound properties, and edit sounds
	Test a movie, identify factors that increase a movie's size and download time, and publish a movie using many of Flash's numerous publishing options

Symbols and Instances

	What is a Symbol?
	Graphic Symbols
	Movie Clip Symbols
	Button Symbols
	Managing Symbols and Instances

Organising Large Projects

	Scenes
	Frame Labels

Interactivity in Flash

	Basic Playback Control
	Creating Advanced Navigation Controls

Working with Sound

	Importing Sounds
	Event vs. Streaming Sounds
	Looping//stopping sounds

Testing and Publishing a Flash Movie

	Evaluating Download Performance
	Optimisation Factors
	Exporting and Publishing Movies

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