Flash CS4: Advanced

Course Outline

Duration: 1 Day

Description: Along with the Basic course, this Advanced ILT Series course is designed to help your students pass the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam for Flash CS4 Professional. Students will create and edit vector paths and mask layers. Students will also learn advanced animation techniques, such as inverse kinematics, shape and motion tweens, and animated masks. Students will then learn some basic programming principles while using ActionScript 3.0 to get more control over their Flash applications. Finally, students will incorporate audio and video into their Flash documents.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Vector illustration

• Topic A: Creating vector paths
• Topic B: Editing vector paths
• Topic C: Using mask layers
  
  

Unit 2: Advanced animation techniques

• Topic A: Inverse kinematics
• Topic B: Shape tweens and animated masks
• Topic C: Filter animation
• Topic D: The Motion Editor
  
  

Unit 3: ActionScript animation

• Topic A: Programming principles
• Topic B: Event listeners and event handlers
• Topic C: Modular code
• Topic D: Special classes
• Topic E: The Debugger
  
  

Unit 4: Interactive techniques

• Topic A: Adding audio
• Topic B: Scripting a link to a Web page
• Topic C: Loading dynamic content
  
  

Unit 5: Video

• Topic A: Flash video basics
• Topic B: Video in Flash files
  
  

Appendix A: ACE exam objectives map

• Topic A: Comprehensive exam objectives