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Flash Animation Learning Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

About
Frame Rate and Animation

Creating
Keyframes for Animation

Creating
Tweened Animations

Creating
Motion Tweens

Applying
Easing and Custom Ease-in and Ease-out to Motion Tweens

Creating
Shape Tweens

Using
Shape Hints with Shape Tweens

Creating
Frame-by-Frame Animations

Editing
Your Animations

Using
Timeline Effects

About
Scripting Animation

Using
the Tween and TransitionManager Classes

Combining
Animation, Filters, and the Tween Class

Combining
Animation and the Drawing API

Comments

Using Timeline Effects

Flash includes prebuilt Timeline effects that enable you to create complex
animations with a minimal number of steps. You can apply Timeline effects to the
following objects:

Text

Graphics, including shapes, groups, and graphic symbols

Bitmap images

Button symbols

Note: Timeline effects share some of the same
names as filter effects; however, they are completely different features.
Timeline effects are automated vector animations you apply to the previously
mentioned objects. Filter effects are static effects you apply to objects and
animate in various ways by applying code or motion tweens.

Adding a Timeline Effect

When you add a Timeline effect to an object, Flash creates a layer and
transfers the object to the new layer. The object is placed inside the effect
graphic, and all tweens and transformations required for the effect reside in
the graphic on the newly created layer. The new layer automatically receives the
same name as the effect, appended with a number that represents the order in
which the effect is applied, out of all effects in your document.

When you add a Timeline effect, a folder with the effect's name is added to
the Library, containing elements used in creating the effect.

To add an effect to an object:

Do one of the following to add a Timeline effect:

Select the object to which you're adding the Timeline effect. Select
Insert > Timeline Effects. Then select Assistants, Effects, or
Transition/Transform from the submenu, and select an effect from the
list.

Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the object to which
you're adding the Timeline effect. From the context menu, select Timeline
Effects. Then select Assistants, Effects, or Transition/Transform from the
submenu, and select an effect from the list.

Effects available for the type of object you've selected appear as active
menu choices.

In the dialog box that appears for the effect, view the effect preview
based on default settings. Modify the default settings as desired, and then
click Update Preview to view the effect with the new settings. For more
information, see Using Flash > Creating Motion > Using Timeline Effects
> Timeline Effect Settings.

When the Timeline effect appears as desired in the preview window, click
OK.

Editing a Timeline Effect

You edit Timeline effects using the Effect Settings dialog box:

Select the object associated with the effect on the Stage.

To open the Effect Settings dialog box, do one of the following:

In the Property inspector, click Edit.

Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the object and select
Timeline Effects > Edit Effect from the context menu.

In the Effect Settings dialog box, edit the settings you want to edit, and
click OK to apply your settings.

Deleting a Timeline Effect

You use the context menu to delete Timeline effects. Right-click (Windows) or
Control-click (Macintosh) the object on the Stage that has the Timeline effect
you want to remove, and select Timeline Effects > Remove Effect from the
context menu.

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