This intensive hands-on workshop will guide participants step-by-step through the process of developing interactive multimedia content for CDs.

What will be covered

• Importance and benefits of Interactive CD
• Practical application of interactive CD-ROMs
• Case study
  • Dissecting interactive CD-ROM structures
  • Knowing the development process
• Preparing the assets for the CD
  • Optimizing content for optimum use
  • Preparing the images and text copy for each section
• Interface design
  • Setting the CD dimension and resolution
  • Shapes and textures, exporting for Flash
  • Importing assets into Flash stage
  • Organizing the Flash directory
  • Organizing the Flash library assets
  • Preparing the navigation
• Preparing the Flash stage
  • Actionscript for CD-ROM development
  • Load Movie command, shared library, tweening using Actionscript.
• Working with components
  • Creating dynamic text
  • Using the component scrollbar
• Working with sounds
  • Attaching sounds dynamically
  • Creating a music player for Flash
  • Looping sounds and creating sound events
• Working with video
  • Converting video to FLV format
  • Setting bitrates and video quality
  • Working with Flash video player component
  • Skinning the Flash video component
• Making a Flash gallery
  • Loading images using XML
  • Managing external data for Flash

Who should attend

Graphic artists, animators, Web designers, multimedia designers.

Prerequisites

Participants should have basic-to-intermediate knowledge of Flash's drawing tools and basic animation techniques. Basic-to-intermediate knowledge of Photoshop editing commands and filters is also preferred for CD-ROM interface design.