ActionScript, Sound, and Video in Flash CS3


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number


Overview/Description
ActionScript, a scripting language used to manipulate objects and movies in Flash CS3, 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 the edge. This course provides an introduction to using ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3. It also explains and demonstrates how to incorporate sound and video into your movies.

Target Audience
In-training or established IT professionals needing to learn how to use Flash without any experience with the specific product.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with web terminology and Internet navigation; experience working in a Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh environment

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

ActionScript, Sound, and Video in Flash CS3

  • recognize the syntax rules in ActionScript 3.0
  • distinguish between objects, classes, methods, and properties
  • recognize how to use the Actions panel in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to use common ActionScript actions in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to use mouse event handlers in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to use conditional statements in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to download data from a URL in Flash CS3
  • use basic ActionScript 3.0 actions in Flash CS3
  • use mouse event handlers, in a given scenario, in Flash CS3
  • use conditional statements, in a given scenario, in Flash CS3
  • download data from a given URL in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to add sound in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to manipulate sound in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to publish a document containing sound in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to import and embed a video in Flash CS3
  • recognize how to import an external video in Flash
  • recognize how to modify an FLVPlayback component in Flash
  • import and manipulate a sound file in Flash CS3, in a given scenario
  • publish a given document containing sound in Flash CS3
  • import and embed a given video clip in Flash CS3
  • create a playback controller in a given scenario in Flash CS3

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