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ActionScript is what gives Flash its power, but with that power
comes a certain level of complexity, which can be intimidating.
This beginner's book covers all of the basics of ActionScript using
Flash 8. An ongoing case study means that by the end of the book,
readers will have constructed a cutting-edge Flash site to showcase
their newly learned skills.
* New edition of the best selling and very well respected
beginner's Flash book. Sham Bhangal is very well known in the Flash
community as a world class teacher, and beginners have even
contacted him about personal tuition, as well as buying his books.
* Provides easy-to-follow tutorials ideal for beginner market - it
is slimmer and more concise than the competition, and concentrates
on the essentials that beginners need to know. * Flash X is going
to be a huge market - it is the most widely-anticipated release of
Flash since 5, because of exciting new features. It is the release
that MX 2004 should have been.
* Practical in its organization- teaches via a real website design.
After reading this book , a reader will have a lot of foundational,
practical knowledge and a self-created website. * Comprehensive and
clear coverage of Flash by an established author team. In the past,
Foundation Flash has been the number 1 best-selling friends Of ED;
this book has been well received in its previous revisions as a
quick and approachable first book for learning Flash. * Covers both
Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004.
Learn Programming with Flash MX employs a truly unique class-based
approach to learning with the goal of establishing core,
generic-programming skills. Each chapter represents a discrete
lesson covering a distinct topic of programming with ActionScript.
In each 'class' we smoothly blend theory and practice with
plentiful practical examples, and a class project that runs through
the book to reinforce the learning in an integrated, real-world
context, using Flash MX as the illustrative vehicle.This book also
addresses the shortfall in solid programming knowledge in
significant segments of the web design community - specifically,
traditional web designers and Flash users with no exposure to the
programming world. It also assumes that the reader is a Flash
novice, so if you're coming to Flash completely from scratch, this
book will give you a broad and solid introduction enabling you to
create aesthetically pleasing, well laid-out content glued together
with robust coding techniques. and skills that every programmer
needs to master in order to create well-structured and efficient
code to a professional standard. Readers will come away from this
book with the following: - A rich, solid understanding of the
concepts and basic processes of programming that will enable them
to explore Flash and other technologies with a degree of confidence
that they didn't have before. - Insights into universally
applicable programming processes and techniques. - An understanding
of how to implement these principles in Flash MX
Diana Johnson (Sorenson Media) One of the best books on video for
new users: editing, compression, and Flash MX technologies. Full of
great tips. Let's make movies Interactive movies, totally
integrated into your Flash interface With Macromedia Flash MX you
have the power to import digital video and sound, and manipulate
them just like any other media object. That's a whole world of
design possibilities. This book takes you through all you need to
know about producing such wonderful sites. The first section gives
you a thorough grounding in how best to import your video and sound
into Flash MX and the many different ways that you can manipulate
it once it's in there. Then, in the second section, we go through a
complete real-world case study from pre-production on the video to
final output to the web and CD-ROM. Finally, we show you how can
apply advanced ActionScript to video, and create a fully
object-oriented sound and video playing Flash component that you'll
be able to use time and time again. Flash MX - viewers who have the
tiny Flash Player installed can now see video material that would
otherwise require lengthy downloads and the clunky interfaces of
other web video plug-ins. This book is the guide you need for this
exciting new universe, offering inspiration and technical guidance
in equal measure. As with all books from friends of ED our support
is fast, friendly and free. Even if our dedicated support team are
unable to solve your problem immediately, your queries will be
passed onto the editors and authors who put the book together. All
foED authors help with the support on their books, and will either
directly mail readers with solutions or (more usually) send their
response to an editor to pass on. This book assumes no knowledge
beyond an ability to work with the Flash MX interface, and is not
intended for those with substantial digital video experience. As
such, this book does not assume that the reader has access to
expensive video-editing software. All you need for this book is
access to Flash MX, and some imagination. and Flash MX
technologies. Gives you a thorough grounding in how best to import
your video and sound into Flash MX and the many different ways you
can produce such wonderful sites. Softcover. About the Author Hoss
Gifford is one of the founding directors of Flammable Jam, and
curator of his personal site. He regularly sponges his way around
the world, getting free flights in exchange for talking at new
media seminars, including FlashForward and Milia. Hoss reckons we
should all take stuff a bit less seriously, and be happy with
making 'quite nice things that entertain people for a wee while',
as can be seen from his other two sites. Kristian Besley was born
in Wales, grew up in the same street as Catherine Zeta Jones, and
read Media Arts following interests in film and design. In his
little spare time, you'll most likely find him creating random
stuff which will eventually appear online at graphci, or laughing
at personalised number plates. One day he vows to reform seminal
band Ken.
by Bruce Herbert and Diana Johnson ofSorenson Media Creative
boundaries are being blown apart as Macromedia Flash MX ushers in a
new era of moving images on the Internet. At its launch, analysts
predicted that the Flash Player would transform itself from being a
lightweight animation tool" to "the de facto technology for simple
web interactivity5* (Randy Souza, Forrester). Since then though,
Flash developers combining vector animation and video have proven
that it's capable of much, much more than "simple web
interactivity". We're still just beginning to scratch the surface
of the possibilities it opens up to us, but already it looks like
Flash MX is becoming the key technology for pushing video
creativity on the Web to a new whole level. Understandably, many
people look at Flash as just another way to deliver video on the
Web, one more program for showing movies on your desktop. Well, it
can certainly do that - but there's a whole lot more it can do
besides! You can use ActionScript to add custom controls, determine
a video playback sequence, or mask your video with a custom shape.
You can use layering to create special effects, design custom
templates for e-learning applications, and use lightweight video
streams along with Flash animation in rich media e-mail campaigns.
You are not alone. Learn Design with Flash MX employs a unique
class-based approach to learning with the goal of establishing
core, generic design skills. Each chapter represents a discrete
lesson covering a distinct topic of design, and in each 'class' we
smoothly blend theory and practice with plentiful practical
examples, and a class project that runs through the book to
reinforce the learning in an integrated, real-world context, using
Flash MX as the illustrative vehicle. Written from the perspective
of the design course's tutor, the context is that of a Design 101
course taught in a classroom environment, where the students act as
mouthpieces to ask the common questions that beginner designers are
sure to ask. You'll get to know the students in the book and follow
the development of these characters as your own skill and expertise
evolves too. Learn Design with Flash MX covers the fundamental
design principles and skills that every designer needs to master in
order to create attractive, aesthetically pleasing work to a
professional standard. This book addresses the shortfall in solid,
traditional design knowledge in significant segments of the web
design community ñ specifically, people using Flash. It assumes
that the reader is a novice in design terms with no exposure to
formal web design principles or training, and little or no Flash
experience. If you're coming to Flash completely from scratch, this
book will give you a broad and solid introduction enabling you to
create aesthetically pleasing, well laid-out sites and content,
which will help you learn the trade and get access to the
professional web design world. This book should even appeal to
those who've read one (or more) entry-level texts on Flash; in
fact, it'll complement other tutorials by providing the rich
general design context and background that other introductory books
lack. This book will teach readers to develop and implement their
creative ideas through an understanding of what professional
designers in all media see as the prerequisites: composition,
color, contrast, light, texture, motion, typography, and many
others. If you're interested in learning design skills following a
structured path, or if you've been using some of the tools of the
trade, like Macromedia Flash, for some time but have never had the
opportunity of a solid tutorial, this introductory level book is
for you. Learn Design with Flash MX will answer all the essential
design questions that other books ignore - the questions you're too
frightened to ask. By addressing the core design skills from a
beginner's perspective, in the context of Flash MX, readers will
gain a rich, solid, and structured understanding of the what, how,
and why's of the fundamental principles of good design. From
experienced self-taught designers who've ever thought, "I wish I
knew how to design things more effectively or more coherently ", to
anyone who's looked at a cool design and said, "Jeez, I wish I'd
taken a design class in school!", this book will show them the
money! Anyone in the web design arena who wants overall design
skills, and who needs a solid learning vehicle that will help them
acquire and embed those skills; anyone who's felt that their lack
of knowledge about formal design processes has got in the way of
liberating their creative ideas effectively; anyone who's started a
creative project in a rush, doodled around, and lost their way...
this book will provide the structure that they might lack. Readers
will come away from this book with: A rich, solid understanding of
the concepts and basic processes that will enable them to explore
further with a degree of confidence that they didn't have before
Insights into universally applicable design processes and
techniques An understanding of how to implement these principles in
Flash MX "Learn Design with Flash MX - the missing link between
creativity and technology. This book comes with a CD-ROM.
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