Animating Items And Adding Transitions - Adobe GOLIVE CS2 User Manual

To use the Hotspot Inspector to set the timing of a hotspot
1 Select the hotspot in the Layout tab of the SMIL window or in the Timeline Editor.
In the Basic tab of the Area Inspector, set the item's begin time by choosing Normal Play Time from the Begin
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menu, and then enter a time in the Begin box.
3 Set the container's end time by choosing Normal Play Time from the End menu, and then enter a time in the End
box.

Animating items and adding transitions

To animate an item
From the SMIL set of the objects toolbox, drag the Animate icon
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2 With "<animate>-Untitled" selected in the Timeline Editor, enter a title and other necessary information in the
Animate Motion tab of the Animate Inspector.
For more information on animating items in SMIL presentations, see the RealNetworks website at www.realnet-
works.com/resources.
See also
"Animate Motion tab options" on page 504
"Time tab options" on page 505
"More tab options" on page 505
Animate Motion tab options
Specifies a title for the animation item.
Title
Specifies the type of animation you want to create:
Type
Lets you animate any of the available attributes (such as Background Color, Media Opacity, and so on).
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Animate
Lets you animate the background color.
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Animate Color
• Lets you animate the elements position.
Animate Motion
Lets you animate the value of a setting such as background color or width and height values.
Set
Specifies the region you want to animate:
Target
Animates nothing.
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None
• Animates the root.
Root-Layout
• Animates the chosen region.
Region <id>
Animates the chosen item, such as a selected video item.
• <item type>
Attribute Specifies the attribute you want to animate. The choices that appear depend on the Type selection.
From/To Specifies the value of the attribute in its initial state (for certain attributes only) using the From field.
Specify the value of the final state of the attribute using the To field.
onto the item you want to animate.
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