Flash<sup><small>TM</small></sup> 8 Accelerated: A Full-Color Guide,9789810538491

FlashTM 8 Accelerated: A Full-Color Guide

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ISBN13: 9789810538491
ISBN10: 9810538499
Pub. Date: 2006-08-01
Publisher(s): Sybex
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Summary

"Flash 8 Accelerated: A Full Color Guide gets you up and running in a flash through hands-on experience creating meaningful, fun projects. Its proven learn-by-doing approach makes the road to proficiency quick and painless. You begin with a clear-cut introduction to essential concepts, functions and terminology that are difficult to grasp on your own. Then, immediately put your new skills to the test by following the step-by-step practical exercises." "Full-color, crisp screenshots and graphics on every page give you a clear image of what's possible. Dozens of real-world examples, from straightforward to advanced, demonstrate how to integrate techniques and pull all your knowledge together. By the end, you'll know how to enrich your website with animation, special effects, audio and motion."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Exploring the Flash Workspace
6(32)
An Introduction to Flash 8
8(4)
Installing Flash 8
12(2)
The Flash 8 Interface
14(6)
Panels in Flash 8
20(10)
Working with Flash Movies
30(6)
Getting Comfortable with the Stage
36(2)
Flash Drawing Techniques
38(38)
Basic Drawing Tools
40(6)
Selection and Editing Tools
46(4)
Advanced Drawing and Editing Tools
50(26)
Exercise 1 Creating a Logo with Text
62(4)
Exercise 2 Drawing a Rabbit
66(3)
Exercise 3 Adding Scrolling Text to Flash Movies
69(2)
Exercise 4 Working with Bitmap Images
71(2)
Drawing Models in Flash
73(1)
Inserting Illustrator Files
74(2)
Basic Elements of Animation
76(42)
Understanding the Basic Elements
78(10)
Understanding Timeline Effects
88(30)
Exercise 1 Working with Frames
97(4)
Exercise 2 Managing Layer Folders
101(3)
Exercise 3 Creating and Using Graphic Symbols
104(3)
Exercise 4 Creating Button Symbols
107(3)
Exercise 5 Creating an Animation Using the Blur Timeline Effect
110(5)
Exercise 6 Using Timeline Effects to Create Text Animations
115(3)
Animating in Flash
118(25)
Animation Methods
120(23)
Exercise 1 Creating Line Effects Using Frame-by-Frame Animation---A Glowing Earth
122(4)
The Revolving Earth
126(5)
Exercise 2 Simulating Camera Movement with Motion Tweening
131(4)
Exercise 3 Working with Motion Guide Layers
135(3)
Rotating an Object
138(2)
Exercise 4 Shape Tweening
140(3)
Exercise 5 E-Card Animation
143(43)
Advanced Animation Techniques
148(2)
Animating Masks
150(2)
Using Behaviors
152(34)
ActionScript
154(8)
Exercise 1 Creating a Bouncing Ball Movie Clip
162(3)
Exercise 2 Animating Masks
165(6)
Exercise 3 Controlling a Movie with Behaviors
171(3)
Exercise 4 Using Behaviors to Control Movie Clips
174(3)
Exercise 5 Adding Actions to Frames and Buttons
177(3)
Exercise 6 Controlling Movie Clip Properties with ActionScript
180(6)
Working with Sounds
186(22)
Importing a Sound File
188(20)
Exercise 1 Adding Background Music
192(2)
Exercise 2 Adding a Sound to a Button
194(2)
Exercise 3 Using Sounds in an Animation
196(2)
Exercise 4 Turning Off Sound in a Movie
198(2)
Exercise 5 Making a Jukebox
200(4)
Using Behaviors to Control Sound
204(4)
Working with Video
208(26)
Embedding Video and Controlling Playback
210(24)
Exercise 1 Importing and Embedding Video Files
213(3)
Flash Video Format (FLV)
216(2)
Exercise 2 Controlling a Video Clip with Behaviors
218(5)
Exercise 3 Importing an FLV File Using Media Components
223(2)
Exercise 4 Controlling Playback with ActionScript
225(3)
Exercise 5 Importing a Linked QuickTime Video Clip
228(2)
Exercise 6 Importing Video into a Movie Clip
230(4)
Creating Movies with Flash Lite
234(18)
About Flash Lite
236(16)
Exercise 1 Creating a Simple Flash Lite Movie
238(3)
Exercise 2 Creating a Mobile Phone Screensaver with Flash Lite
241(3)
Exercise 3 Creating a Flash Lite Movie That Responds to User Input
244(6)
Updating the List of Target Devices
250(2)
It's a Wrap!
252(17)
Optimizing a Movie
254(15)
Exercise 1 Generating SWF Files with the Export Movie Command
264(1)
Exercise 2 Creating a Full-Screen Movie for a CD-ROM
265(2)
Exercise 3 Creating a Transparent Flash Movie
267(2)
Matching the Flash Movie Size to the Window Size
269

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