Animate The Image To Travel Down; Extend The Background Across Additional Frames - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX 2004-GETTING STARTED WITH DIRECTOR Getting Started

Animate the image to travel down

You now have an animation of a tire rising off the ground. To animate the tire returning to its
starting point, you can use the same method that you used when animating the tire to travel up.
But you can also use a shortcut to create a reversed copy of the tire sprite.
In the Score, click channel 2 anywhere between frames 16 and 23.
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The tire sprite that you created previously is selected.
Select Edit > Copy Sprites to copy the sprite.
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In the Score, click channel 2, frame 25.
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Select Edit > Paste Sprites.
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If you scrub the playhead at this point, you will see the tire animation repeated twice. Next,
you will reverse the motion of the second tire animation.
In the Score, click channel 2 anywhere between frames 26 and 33.
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The new copy of the tire sprite is selected.
Select Modify > Reverse Sequence.
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Scrub the playhead from frames 15 to 34 to see the tire rise and then fall.
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Extend the background across additional frames

You may have noticed as you scrubbed the playhead that the background sprite disappears as the
tire falls. The background sprite exists only between frames 15 and 24. You can extend it to
additional frames.
Building the second scene with animation 55