To make his dice-rolling simulation more useful, Doug adds attributes to his custom class which work just like normal coding variables for storing and retrieving information.

Doug shows the ActionScript coding needed to bring the dice-rolling application from the last few videos alive.  He focuses on the importance of communication among multiple classes in object-oriented programming.

Doug demonstrates the difference between public and private methods, and their respective effects, inside custom classes for your Flash Professional projects.

Building on the skills covered in his continuing lesson on object-oriented programming in Flash Professional, Doug highlights how to create mouse events for classes that automatically are part of each instance.

In the last few videos, Doug explained the concept of custom classes in object-oriented programming and how to create them. Now Doug introduces the class-specific function known as a method.

Doug further explores the usefulness of customized classes in object-oriented programming in Flash Professional CS5.  He also explains more of how the constructor works as he expands the dice project.

In this video, Doug discusses how to create customized classes, and explains more about how a class constructor works for custom classes.

Doug explains how to associate a Flash Professional project to a specific class called the Document class, and how to create the class using ActionScript.

In this video, Doug opens up a new topic for developers working in Flash Professional CS5.  He defines what object-oriented programming means, and explains the role that classes play in an object’s behavior.

Get more functionality out of your keyboard by applying new concepts in ActionScript. Doug uses the code snippets in Flash Professional CS5 to program arrow keys to control objects.

In this video, Doug shows how to create a custom mouse cursor for your Flash Professional CS5 project using code snippets.

Code snippets can introduce you to working with a TextField and with Text Controls inside ActionScript. Doug Winnie explores this new functionality in Flash Professional CS5.

Complex coding can help you build efficiency and flexibility into a Flash project.  Doug explains how to achieve a desired result by combining snippets together.

Drag and drop actions in your Flash Professional project are made easy using code snippets. Doug demonstrates adding an object to the stage, and how to control the behavior of that object.

A timer can act as a stopwatch for your Flash application. In this episode, Doug explores how to efficiently integrate code snippets for timer event handlers.

Inspire students to create dynamic content, communicate their understanding of subject matter, and collaborate on multimedia projects with the Adobe Digital School Collection, which includes state-of-the-art Adobe software as well as curriculum and training materials to bring the learning experience to life. Take your budget further with the Adobe Digital School Collection. Add sound editing, web publishing, and ePortfolio capabilities.

Doug Winnie demonstrates working with object parameters using a code snippet, and he explains how snippets offer ease and flexibility of coding in ActionScript for Flash Professional CS5 projects.

Doug Winnie begins the next season of ActionScript 1:1 with an introduction to the code snippets panel in the new generation of Flash Professional.

The production of effective and inexpensive interactive learning objects is a constant challenge for any institution’s instructional development team. Britt Carr shares strategies for customizing and randomizing learning objects to make them truly interactive and personal for the online/hybrid learner. He also discusses how separating content from context can make learning objects re-usable across vertical and horizontal areas within an institution.

Learn how Full Sail University is using the Adobe Flash Platform to instruct students how to create Rich Internet Applications that access APIs and Web Services. Bill Bain explains how they use the Adobe Flash Platform along with design and development methods to teach students to design, build, and deploy their own RIAs. Examples are shown of how students implement the Flash Platform, including the Flash and Flash Builder authoring environments along with the Flash Player and AIR runtimes.

Learn about methods for assessing the impact of Adobe solutions on learning outcomes. Hear ideas for multi-institutional research, at both the K-12 and Higher Education levels, as well as potential methods for disseminating findings to promote increased awareness. Finally learn about strategic dissemination of findings through use cases and qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods via presentations, press releases, journals and books.

Kellen Maicher from Purdue University demonstrates the development of several educational AIR applications that have resulted from integrating Flash, AIR, and Flex into the existing curriculum. Learn about the evolution of course material from primarily Flash-based content to the integration of other aspects of the Flash platform including AIR, Flex, and other technologies from the Adobe line of products. See demonstrations of various AIR applications developed by students including a 3D information visualization program, a multi-touch application for collaborative design, and a mixed reality video chat system.

You may want to work with a developer on large or complex projects. Doug describes the workflow from design to develop, and he opens a new project in Flash Builder to illustrate what developers see when starting from scratch.

When the wireframe is finished, it's time to start adding the visual design. Doug covers how to update a project’s components piece-by-piece using Adobe Illustrator and Flash Catalyst CS5.

In this video, Doug tells how to optimize your project using features from the Library panel. Doug also walks you through how Flash Catalyst organizes and publishes files.

Cater to a client’s needs with the ability to make additions or corrections after the design process. Doug shows how to easily incorporate changes into a project without starting from scratch.

With the wireframe of a project finished, each page appears statically. Doug uses Flash Catalyst to transform the wireframe to show motion, and interaction from the user.

Flash Catalyst CS5 offers a number of complex components.  In this tutorial, Doug demonstrates how to use wireframe drawing tools to build and customize the data list component.

It’s easy to work with pre-built components or, you can draw custom components to wireframe an idea or UI element. In this video, Doug introduces the wireframe drawing tools in Flash Catalyst CS5.

Doug takes a single page wireframe and expands it to cover multiple pages using the Duplicate State feature. He examines best practices for preparing your multi-page wireframe for animated transitions.

Create a wireframe of the user interface for a Flash-based website or application. Doug introduces the Wireframe Components panel in Flash Catalyst CS5 and shows how to quickly mock-up a wireframe.

In his new series Flash Catalyst 1:1, Doug Winnie talks about the relatively new design discipline of interactivity. He highlights how Flash Catalyst and CS5 help create interactive websites and application UIs.

Combine stored objects on the stage with loops and other ActionScript statements using arrays. Doug shows how to tie in movie clips with arrays.

You can loop through items in a group with the for loop, as well as combine arrays with loops to run ActionScript statements for each item within a group.

Watch as Dave Helmly guides you through the basics of Blu-ray authoring with Adobe Encore. Dave also gives helpful tips on media and burners and much more..

Modify your existing arrays by taking items out of your groups. Doug walks you through the various ways you can use the splice command.

Do you like Encore but have always used the included content for your DVD or Blu-ray menus? If you're ready to take the next step, join Dennis as he walks you how to build an Encore menu from scratch - right inside of Photoshop.

Discover how easy it is to harness After Effects to create compelling, deep motion graphics with very little thought. In this episode, Dennis walks through how a single element can be combined and reused to create a nice background element.

In this video, Doug continues his tutorial on arrays in ActionScript, introducing how to append an existing array to add or replace items.

Learn to use the powerful array object in ActionScript as Doug demonstrates how to group multiple items into arrays and then how to access those items.

Students can create media-rich PDF portfolios. Educators can distribute curriculum, streamline record-keeping, and enhance communication. Watch to see how the features of Acrobat 9 Pro can support classroom learning and support administrative tasks.

Doug creates a virtual-dice game to incorporate basic game behaviors using random chance into loops, and then shows how to use the break statement and the if statement.

In a few simple steps, teachers, administrators, and students can publish content to school websites or blogs. Watch and see how the features of Contribute CS4 can support the classroom learning experience and support administrative efficiencies.

Repeating actions is best accomplished using loops. Doug introduces the basic for-loop, and walks you through how to customize it and how the for-loop executes.

Doug walks you through the ActionScript code to combine the timer with animation principles, creating timeline-free and random movement of graphical objects.

Doug continues his lesson on linear animation by showing you the results of manipulating variables such as time, repetition, and slope.

In this third installment, we start to put our 2012 end-of-the-world movie comp together. We'll see the Earth brown and die and our 2012 text suck the atmosphere from the Earth. Depressing yes, but fun inside of After Effects!

You can animate purely in ActionScript by reviewing the basic geometry practices of animating. In this video, Doug reviews animation slope, frame rates and other elements to get you ready.

Atomic Learning’s ePortfolio workshop showcases how rich media can enhance an ePortfolio.

Learn how to incorporate random chance into your Flash projects by generating random numbers using the Math class in ActionScript 3.0.

Looking for something dynamic and new for your After Effects work? In this second of a four part series, Dennis shows the essential techniques to have elements come together in smokey bits again with no third party effects.

Learn how to work with decimal numbers using common math functions in ActionScript. Doug demonstrates the floor, rounding and ceiling operations.

Adobe Platform Evangelist Terry Ryan highlights the functionality of ColdFusion Media Player, the new feature in ColdFusion 9 that allows you to play FLV files.

In this video, Doug Winnie shows you all of the ways you can customize your Flash workspace UI and then save the set up for later use.

Dennis is beginning another series of how to create motion graphics and visual effects inside of After Effects. In this first part, Dennis creates three useful building blocks for a later composition.

Adobe Beginner Classes takes you from nothing to a finished broadcast slate in 24 minutes? Yes. Along the way, you'll learn about compound blur, shape layers, repeaters and more. Sounds like fun right? Then come on down!

After a hiatus, Adobe Beginner Classes is back! Join us as we cover a technique for removing silence in Audition 3.0 and the first of two parts on how to create 3D text inside of After Effects with no plugins.

Join Dennis as he does the second part of a tutorial on creating exciting 3D text inside of After Effects with no 3rd party plugins. The final piece is something you'll want to see and learn so you can do the same!

In this episode, Dennis recounts and demos an experience that was an eye-opener for him about the real power of Premiere Pro in the 21st century.

Premiere Pro CS4 has gotten a HUGE number of improvements including some that you probably don’t know about. Join Dennis as he dives into his personal top 10 on this episode of Adobe Beginner Classes.

Join Dennis as he explains how the Media Browser panel can save you time and keep your projects tidy. Also learn about Equalize Volume within Soundbooth to make volume matching files easy.

Learn how to use Premiere Elements 8 to create a rough cut for a documentary in part one of a series showcasing the student project in the Civic Documentaries lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular

Doug demonstrates how to test multiple conditions at the same time using logic operators. Learn to customize your project with more control using basic Boolean logic commands.

Duane Nickull highlights the compatibility of Flex, Adobe AIR or Flash projects with an AMF endpoint on BlazeDS to retrieve data.

Conditional tests are only useful if you can do different things based on the results. In this video, Doug shows how to do exactly that with the “if” and “if...else” statements.

Doug shows how to test for different conditions in your application using Equality and Inequality Operators. Follow along as Doug builds a number of conditional statements, and then tests the results.

Boolean variables are the basis for building logic into an application.  Doug provides some easy commands to get you started working with Boolean variables.

Add drag and drop interactivity to Flash projects. Doug explains simple ActionScript statements that make drag and drop possible such as mouse over/mouse out and the start/stop drag method.

Controlling multiple objects in a Flash project can be tricky. Doug discusses using the Event Object to dynamically adjust multiple instances of objects with only a few lines of code.

Expanding on his previous video about working with timelines in ActionScript, Doug demonstrates using frame labels to create named frames and adding event handlers with AS3 commands.

Doug shows you how to work with encapsulated timelines in MovieClips, and introduces how to control internal MovieClip animations from the main timeline.

Learn how to assemble a transitional motion graphic element that you can use in your productions. This simple and elegant After Effects project is sure to charm your clients. Learn how now with ABC!

In this episode, learn the basics on the ideas of cloning in After Effects: learn how to paint copies of objects on video or remove them.

See Doug build a clock in Flash using ActionScript to manipulate objects’ properties and add mouse and timer events. Everything we’ve learned from his tutorials is combined into one project.

Using your advanced knowledge of ActionScript, Doug Winnie walks you through how to combine time events with event listeners to create and control time-based events.

Discover the power of events, and how you can quickly and easily build event handlers. In this episode, Doug covers how to use events to build interactivity with the mouse.

In this video, Doug Winnie reviews how Flash calculates math based on a specific order of operations.

Doug Winnie teaches the basics of calculating mathematical operations in ActionScript code, including commonly used shortcuts to save coding time.

Doug Winnie wraps up his lesson on functions by explaining how to retrieve results for the output panel with the return statement.

Doug continues his tutorial on how to efficiently use functions with ActionScript. With functions, you can customize their functionality by assigning parameters and values.

Doug Winnie provides an introduction to functions and explains how to efficiently use them in ActionScript by grouping commonly used tasks together as a named function.

You can use comments to document your ActionScript code for other developers to use. Doug’s tutorial sums up the benefit of building good coding practices.

In this video, Doug Winnie teaches you how to use ActionScript to dynamically add objects to the stage using code and the DisplayStack.

Dive deeper with the Library panel and learn more about how to name instances on the stage, and how to use the Linkage panel to name objects in the Library panel.

In order to manipulate objects, Doug Winnie uses the assignment operator in ActionScript 3.0 to instantaneously overwrite values initially assigned in Flash.

Doug Winnie demonstrates how to access properties of an object such as size or location by using instance properties with ActionScript, sending messages to the output console.

Understand how to use the Actions panel and use the trace statement. Doug Winnie walks you through the code to control objects created in Flash.

Doug Winnie gives an overview of his new series in which you will learn the fundamentals of ActionScript 3.0. Get up and running in Flash Professional using ActionScript 3.0.