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CIS 75.31B Intermediate Flash ActionScript Homework

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Hands-On Homework One- Creating a Dynamic Navigation Bar (due date- September 18)

  1. Watch the video by clicking this link
  2. Open Flash and create your own version of the dynamic navigation bar
  3. Post the html, swf, and .as files to your website
  4. Create an ndex page for this class
  5. Create a link to this assignment from your index page
  6. Click here to insert a link to your index page. This will appear on the student homework links page

This video tutorial was created by Nathaniel from tutvid.com. You can access his entire video playlist here http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A6E5FB31FA1DBDD6

Hands-On Homework Two- Creating a Dynamic Navigation Bar using OOP(due date- October 2)

  1. Read textbook (pp.111-114)
  2. Open Flash and create your own version of the OOP navigation bar
  3. Post the html, swf, and .as files to your website
  4. Create a link to this assignment from your index page

Hands-On Homework Three- Creating a feathered mask (due date- October 22)

  1. Watch the video here
  2. Create this file from scratch
  3. Upload it and link to it from your index page

Extra Credit Options (Choose one of the choices below for up to 5 points extra credit-- I get to decide how many points depending on the complexity of the modifications)

  1. Download the two flas here and embellish either of them according to our classroom discussion on Thursday October 14
  2. Combine the ideas from Creating a Flashlight Effect with Flash with the feathered mask exercise above

Hands-On Homework Four- Creating a music player(due date- November 6)

Choice A

  1. Watch the ActionScript 3 Sound Basics video
  2. Watch the Sound Spectrum Display video
  3. Go to Audacity Sound Editor page and download Version 1.26 for Windows, 1.25 for Mac (Intel) and 1.26a for Mac (PPC).
  4. To Export your files as mp3 files, you will also need to download the LAME encoder. Select the first choice for Windows, the second choice for Mac (Intel)and the third choice for Mac (PPC).
  5. Create a 10 second or more voice over file using Audacity. If you need help with this watch the instructional video on how to use Audacity (Windows version).
  6. Create an fla file which incorporates some or all of the styles taught in the Sound Spectrum Display video
  7. Upload the sound, swf, html and if necessary RunActiveContent.js files to your website and link to it from your index page

Choice B

  1. Examine the Papervision 3D Gallery
  2. Got to the Tech Labs and download the source files necessary to create a 3D sound mixer that looks like this
  3. Alter the downloaded file to include at least the following changes:
    1. Use your own mp3 file
    2. Change the colors of the cubes (blue and green material list)
    3. Experiment and ultimately alter the zoom of the camera
  4. Upload the sound, swf, html and if necessary RunActiveContent.js files to your website and link to it from your index page

Hands-On Homework Five- Creating a Dynamic video player (due date- November 20)

  1. Go to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_playlist_print.html.
  2. Read the article and download the necessary start files. You will need to familiarize yourself with the files in the VideoPlaylist folder. Later on your will be substituting your own work for the content of the xml file, the thumbnail images, and the flv files. Note: You do not need to install the Flash Streaming Server (but you can if you want to experiment with this.
  3. Choose a video from the Internet Archive here.
  4. Download six individual commercials in Cinepak format by right-clicking and Saving As the file name.avi
  5. Use the Flash Video Encoder to encode the videos with the following settings:
    1. Flash 8 Medium Quality (400 kbps)
    2. Select the Crop and Resize tab and set the width to 320 and the height to 240
  6. Construct your video player by:
    1. Swapping out the videos in the project files for the ones that you created.
    2. Swapping out the titles and paths in the playlist.xml file
    3. Creating and swapping out the jpgs in the thumbs folder
  7. Upload it to your server.

Final Project- Learn Flex in a Week (due date- December 16-- Final for this class is at 10:30 Am on Tuesday. See the SRJC Final Schedule for more details)

The Learn Flex in a Week project is a series of free videos on Adobe.com that teach you how to create a basic Flex application. Each "day" of Flex training includes about an hour of video instruction and 1-2 hours of reading support PDF files and actually creating the application. I estimate the entire training will take approximately 10-12 hours. You can spend less time by simply selecting the start file from the first day and reading the PDF files but you will miss out on some of the finer details within the video

  1. If you do not have Flex 3 on your machine download it here
  2. Apply for your free copy here
  3. Watch the videos and download the PDF and support files here
  4. Create the Flickr RIA and do any of the OPTIONAL extra credit projects. Find the necessary instructions here.