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Using Flash MX with Keynote / Text Animations and Stop Actions




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Ok, let's go ahead and animate some text, and use a stop action. Choose the Type tool, click on the screen, then go ahead and just type some text. I will type my name, and I will select the text and increase the font size, and change the font that's being used. I will scroll all the way up till I find a font that I like, there we have it. I have a font that I like. Now, I will just rename our layer, choose our black arrow, select a frame number. Let's go ahead and do that, select a frame number, hit F6, move my name across the screen in the second keyframe, and then double click the text to change the wording to "HELLO" and click back on the first keyframe. We are going to break this apart. From Modify menu, do break apart two times; you could also do the keystroke if you wish. Select the last key frame and repeat the process. We will just break it apart with a keystroke, once and twice. It breaks it apart to raw data. Select the first keyframe and choose shape tween, and now the words will morph into one an other. Hit enter and you see it morphed into "HELLO" and that's how you can shape tween with text. It's got to be broken apart. Go ahead and create a new layer, name it, select the final keyframe, insert a blank keyframe in that area, and we go to the action script menu. We want to access our movie controls menu. Here it is, right there. And we want to double click the stop action, and that will apply the stop action to that blank keyframe and that keyframe only. So when the play head hits that point, the animation will come to a full stop. And we will preview. You will see in the last frame it will come to a full stop, and that's because the stop action. Flash loops by default. Flash always loops by default. It's a number one cardinal rule. 's a number one cardinal rule.

Tutorial Information

Course: Keynote
Author: Mario Leone
SKU: 33421
ISBN: 193207225X
Release Date: 2003-05-15
Duration: 6 hrs / 103 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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