ActionScript and Multimedia in Flash CS4

Overview/Description
ActionScript, a scripting language used to manipulate Flash movies, is at the heart of creating interactivity in your movies. Gaining a grasp of ActionScript is essential if you want to produce highly interactive user experiences. This, coupled with an ability to integrate sound and video into Flash, will give your movies an interactive edge! This course provides an introduction to using ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS4. It also explains and demonstrates how to incorporate sound and video into your movies.

Target Audience
This course targets a range of in-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any prior experience with the product. Learners are expected to have basic computing and word-processing skills, familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation, and experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

ActionScript and Multimedia in Flash CS4

recognize the syntax rules in ActionScript 3.0

distinguish between objects, classes, methods, and properties

recognize how to use the Actions panel in Flash CS4

recognize how to use common ActionScript actions in Flash CS4

recognize how to use mouse event handlers in Flash CS4

recognize how to use conditional statements in Flash CS4

recognize how to download data from a URL in Flash CS4

use basic ActionScript 3.0 actions in Flash CS4

use mouse event handlers, in a given scenario, in Flash CS4

use conditional statements, in a given scenario, in Flash CS4

download data from a given URL in Flash CS4

add sound in Flash CS4

recognize how to manipulate sound in Flash CS4

recognize how to publish a document containing sound in Flash CS4

recognize how to import and embed a video in Flash CS4

recognize how to play an external video in Flash CS4

import and manipulate a sound file in Flash CS4, in a given scenario

import and embed a given video clip in Flash CS4

create a playback controller in a given scenario in Flash CS4