Product: Learning Flash 4 [VHS]
Rating: 3.0
some useful information, too expensive
The learning flash 4 tape lasts around 7 hours, the beginning of the tapes describe whats in the manuals, tweening, symbols, etc. If you learn faster by watching then it will probably help. The aspect of the tape that bothers me is that Lynda will describe a technique, say motion tweening, then David will explain how thats changed in V 4.0 and then show you how to do it faster. Why not just show us the 4.0 way and stop wasting time with 3.0 methods. Nice coverage of tell target, bandwidth profiler, and a good example of preloading methods. IMHO the tape would be better if it explained in detail the newest features, and left the intro stuff to the manual and the other Flash books out there. It would have been nice to include an index so you can fast forward to the topics you want to see, also the audio quality on the tapes is horrible. Too bad Freehand 9.0 wasn't out when the tape was made since coverage of that would have added another star to the review.