Macromedia Flash MX Hands-On-Training

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Features

• NEW - Completely updated to reflect Flash MX's key enhancements—Include new support for streaming media, new management tools, and more.

  • Shows students how to make the most of the key creativity and productivity enhancements Macromedia has built into Flash MX.

• Exclusive instruction from Lynda.com, one of the world's leading Flash MX training teams—Teaches Flash MX core principles and techniques drawing on lessons developed by Lynda Weinman.

  • Students benefit from courseware refined through use with thousands of designers and Web professionals.

• Step-by-step projects: basic through advanced—Teaches Flash MX hands-on, through step-by-step projects carefully crafted to build on what students have already learned.

  • Students steadily gain both skills and confidence as they move towards deep mastery of Flash MX.

• CD-ROM sample files and QuickTime tutorials—The accompanying CD-ROM includes a complete set of starter and finished exercise files to accompany every project in the book, as well as several QuickTime tutorials.

  • Students have all the resources they need to perform the course's projects hands-on, and check their work against the professionals.

• Systematic, start-to-finish coverage—Covers every aspect of Flash development, including drawing, text, images, audio, navigation, interactivity, content management, publishing, video and forms/components.

  • Gives students a single source for mastering all of Flash MX, from beginning to advanced level techniques.

• Background information and practical tips—Contains exceptional practical insights drawn from the experience of many leading Flash experts.

  • Helps students discover solutions, workarounds, and other techniques they would otherwise need to learn through lengthy trial and error.

Description

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!

Sample Content

Table of Contents

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.

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