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Shows students how to make the most of the key creativity and productivity enhancements Macromedia has built into Flash MX.
Students benefit from courseware refined through use with thousands of designers and Web professionals.
Students steadily gain both skills and confidence as they move towards deep mastery of Flash MX.
Students have all the resources they need to perform the course's projects hands-on, and check their work against the professionals.
Gives students a single source for mastering all of Flash MX, from beginning to advanced level techniques.
Helps students discover solutions, workarounds, and other techniques they would otherwise need to learn through lengthy trial and error.
There's no better way for you to get your feet wet using Macromedia Flash MX than with a H.O.T. tutorial, Lynda Weinman's well-loved and unique style of instruction. With Macromedia Flash MX Hands-On Training, you'll learn core Macromedia Flash MX principles and techniques in a real-world Web design environment. The step-by-step projects build successively, teaching you not only the various features of Macromedia Flash MX, but also how to actually work with the program to achieve results. Each lesson is chock-full of background information, tips, and insight aimed at helping you understand the process as much as the exercise itself. And the accompanying CD-ROM includes both starter files and finished files for each lesson, as well as QuickTime instructional movies, so that you can learn by watching and doing.
Macromedia Flash MX H.O.T. covers all of the most important new features of Macromedia Flash MX, beginning with projects that focus on the MX interface, drawing and color tools, animation basics, tweening, symbols and instances, bitmaps, and more. As the projects progress, you'll tackle more complex techniques, such as working with movie clips, text, sound, and video. The latter part of the book addresses publishing and managing Macromedia Flash MX content, as well as how to create content by integrating other software into Macromedia Flash MX. If you're looking for an intelligent, approachable guide for learning Macromedia's latest version of Flash, you'll find lynda.com's Hands-On Training your e-ticket to Macromedia Flash MX expertise!
Introduction.
1. Background Information.
2. Interface.
3. Drawing and Color Tools.
4. Animation Basics.
5. Shape Tweening.
6. Symbols and Instances.
7. Motion Tweening.
8. Bitmaps.
9. Buttons.
10. Movie Clips.
11. ActionScripting Basics.
12. Working with Text.
13. Sound.
14. Components and Forms.
15. Video.
16. Publishing and Exporting.
17. Putting It All Together.
18. Integration.
Appendix A. Troubleshooting FAQ and Technical Support.
Appendix B. Macromedia Flash MX Resources.
Index.