Chapter 11: Create A Timeline Animation - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-LEARNING FLASH Manual

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 provide powerful
tools for creating animation. Most simple animation in Flash is done using a process known as
tweening. Tweening is short for "in between" and refers to filling in the frames between two
keyframes so that a graphic displayed in the first keyframe changes into the graphic displayed in
the second keyframe.
There are two types of tweening you can create in Flash—a motion tween and a shape tween. The
main difference between motion tweening and shape tweening is that motion tweening operates
on grouped objects or symbols, and shape tweening is used with objects that are not symbols and
are ungrouped.
In this lesson you will learn how to accomplish the following tasks:
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Create an animation using motion tweening
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Create an animation using shape tweening
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Copy and paste keyframes in an animation
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Change the speed of an animation
Create a Timeline Animation
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