Flash CS3

Student sites from the past:

• Sample Flash Movies From The Past

Flash basics

• What is Flash? Flash 101 - AS3
• Flash review exercise

Workspace

• Menus - AS3
• Tools & Workspace! - AS3
• Special Flash panels Stage & Library - AS3
• Layers in the Timeline - AS3
• Actionscript - AS3

Drawing, Painting, Animation, Tweening

• Drawing in Flash CS3 - AS3
• painting in Flash CS3
• Frame-by-Frame animation - AS3
  • Animator vs. Animation Cartoon
• Adobe Web TV tutorial on "Bone" system which lets you animate body parts, using bone system and key frames
• Tweening 101 - AS3
• Animate drawn shapes with Tweening - AS3
• Vectorize or break apart bitmaps - AS3
• Text, Symbols, Animated GIF exercise
• Morphing Shapes, Vectorized Bitmaps, and Letters
• Tweening with a Guideline

Buttons for interactivity

• Create button symbols
• ActionScript 3 buttons to play, stop timeline
• Menu to jump to 3 different sections on movie timeline

ActionScript 3.0

• AS3 Basics
• Adobe Web TV tutorial on Actionscript CS3
• Flash CS3 Visual Assets
• Menu to jump to 3 different sections on movie timeline
• ActionScript 3 buttons to play, stop timeline
• ActionScript Gaming Basics: Drag

Flash Accessibiliity

• Flash Accessibility Overview
• Flash Accessibility from Tia Alexander - links from her site
  • Rich Media Accessibility Center
  • Accessibility Blog
  • Accessify Forum
  • Niqui Merret's Accessibility and Flash Blog
  • Tutorial Flash Accessible
  • WebAIM Tutorial Accessible Macromedia Flash Content
• CalWAC4 Flash accessibility tutorials --get login and password from Blackboard announcment
• XML Captioning and Cue Points
• Close Captioning a Flash Video using components and XML
  • Download FLV file with navigation cue points for practice
  • xml file template to download and modify for your movie

Movie Clips

• Create a SWF movie with bitmaps
• Create a Movie Clip Symbol

Apply Effects

• Apply Blend Modes to movie Clips in different layers
• Apply Filter Effects to movieclips
• Timeline Effects

Mask Layers

• Static Masks

Sounds

• Start & Stop sounds with ActionScript 3.0

Video

• Embed video in an .fla/SWF file: CS2 or CS3
• Convert video to FLV with Flash CS3/ActionScript 3.0
• Convert video to FLV in Flash CS3 Video Encoder
• Play 3 FLV files, based on menu3sections.fla Flash file created earlier
• Create buttons & ActionScript 3.0 to load & play FLV file
• Resulting SWF file: Buttons + ActionScript 3.0 to load & play FLV file in Flash
• Adding timeline markers in Premiere that can serve as cue points in Flash
• Exporting FLV files from Premiere for Flash
• Using XML file to load in multiple videos from which user can choose
  • Example of a list of FLV videos displayed in Flash using an XML file

Publish Flash Movies

• ActionScript3: Code for valid XHTML (using the <object> tags without the <embed> tags)

Resources

• Downloads for Flash
• Safari Electronic books on Web design, CSS, Adobe CS3 applications, available on-line through the Cal Poly Library
• Adobe Video Tutorials on the Adobe Video Workshop Website
  • click the "Start Video Workshop" button
  • on the next page choose Flash CS3 on the product dropdown list
  • on the Select a topic window on the right, select "Getting Started" to view introductory Flash video tutorials
• Adobe TV tutorials for CS4 applications:
  • Adobe Flash CS4 Web TV tutorials