Add in ActionScript 3.0, and Flash become even more powerful tool for developing high-performance web applications. Important Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript introduce and discuss the possibilities available to you through using Flash CS4. You will learn the basics of Flash environmental aspects of work and, using the approach of step-by-step, working through Flash and ActionScript features necessary to quickly achieve results. Written for beginning Flash user-to-medium enterprises, this book uses complete examples that highlight best practices that you can apply to your everyday job as a developer or designer in the world of rich media today. Learn to create and manage the assets in Flash using graphics tools and libraries. Summary of Contents Part One: Basics Chapter 1: How It All Started Chapter 2: Interface New Flash CS4 Chapter 3: Drawing with Flash's Tools Vectors Chapter 4: External Assets and Symbols Management Chapter 5: Working with Mixed, Filters, and 3D Transformation Part Two: Animation Chapter 6: Basic Animation in Flash Chapter 7: Playing with Dolls: Introducing Flash IK Part Three: ActionScript Chapter 8: Programming Primer: A Designer Flash Intro to ActionScript 3.0 Chapter 9: Interactivity Building Blocks Chapter 10: Learning Model Display and Bringing It All Together Chapter 11: Managing Assets and External Communications Chapter 12: XML: How to Best In and Out Flash Section Four: Additional User Interfaces Chapter 13: Working with Text and Strings Chapter 14: Using Components Part Five: Increase Media Development Chapter 15: Using the Adobe Media Encoder A Crash Course Chapter 16: Working with Audio in Flash Chapter 17: Working with Video in Flash Part Six:? Preparing Your Project for Deployment Chapter 18: Publishing, Exporting, and Debugging Your Flash Projects Chapter 19: Building AIR Applications with Flash CS4