Editing Animation - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

To complete your frame-by-frame animation sequence, repeat steps 4 and 5 until you've built
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the motion you want.
To test the animation sequence, select Control > Play or click the Play button on the Controller.
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Editing animation

After you create a frame or a keyframe, you can move it elsewhere in the active layer or to another
layer, remove it, and make other changes. Only keyframes are editable. You can view tweened
frames, but you can't edit them directly. To edit tweened frames, you change one of the defining
keyframes or insert a new keyframe between the beginning and ending keyframes. You can drag
items from the Library panel onto the Stage to add the items to the current keyframe.
To display and edit more than one frame at a time, you use onion skinning. See
on page 173.
To insert frames in the Timeline, do one of the following:
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To insert a new frame, select Insert > Timeline > Frame.
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To create a new keyframe, select Insert > Timeline > Keyframe, or right-click (Windows) or
Control-click (Macintosh) the frame where you want to place a keyframe, and select Insert
Keyframe from the context menu.
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To create a new blank keyframe, select Insert > Timeline > Blank Keyframe, or right-click
(Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the frame where you want to place the keyframe, and
select Insert Blank Keyframe from the context menu.
To delete or modify a frame or keyframe, do one of the following:
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To delete a frame, keyframe, or frame sequence, select the frame, keyframe, or sequence and
right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the frame, keyframe, or sequence and
select Remove Frames from the context menu. Surrounding frames remain unchanged.
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To move a keyframe or frame sequence and its contents, select the keyframe or sequence, then
drag to the desired location.
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To extend the duration of a keyframe, Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Macintosh) the
keyframe to the final frame of the new sequence.
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To copy a keyframe or frame sequence by dragging, select the keyframe or sequence, then Alt-
drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Macintosh) to the new location.
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To copy and paste a frame or frame sequence, select the frame or sequence and select Edit >
Timeline > Copy Frames. Select a frame or sequence that you want to replace, and select Edit >
Timeline > Paste Frames.
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To convert a keyframe to a frame, select the keyframe and select Modify > Timeline >
Clear Keyframe, or right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the keyframe and
select Clear Keyframe from the context menu. The cleared keyframe and all frames up to
the subsequent keyframe are replaced with the contents of the frame preceding the
cleared keyframe.
172 Chapter 9: Creating Motion
"Onion skinning"