Lynda.com Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training (1 dvd)

In Flash CS5 Professional Essential Training, author Todd
Perkins explains the fundamentals of Flash Professional CS5,
the industry standard for creating animations and interactive
applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices. This
course starts with the basics, such as using the drawing
tools to create simple animations, and progresses to
automating animation with tweens and adding interactivity
with ActionScript. This course also covers how to add sound
and video to projects, enhance realism with effects like
easing, and publish a project to a variety of platforms.
Exercise files are included.

Topics include:

* Becoming familiar with the Flash workspace
* Drawing basic shapes
* Masking content
* Organizing a file into layers
* Importing content into the Library
* Understanding symbols and instances
* Inserting frames and keyframes in the Timeline
* Animating with motion and shape tweens
* Creating IK (Inverse Kinematics) animations
* Using ActionScript code snippets to control video playback
* Publishing HTML, SWF, and AIR files from Flash