I just started using Adobe Flash CS3 and I’ve got some questions about it.
Okay, so I put it on Onion Skin and begin doing a frame-by-frame animation thingy. But it goes way too quickly. My first animation in flash was of a guy sneezing. I drew out probably thirty frames, but it only two seconds long. How do I stretch out the frames? I’ve heard of a 24 frames per second thing, but how the heck do I do that??
Frame-by-frame takes foooooreeeverr! I do have fun with it, but after awhile it can get tedious. Are there shortcuts? I know there are settings where you can move around the pictures, but I don’t know where it is!
Please help me out. I’m an amature and I really respect you flash experts.
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you can change the frame per second thing by first opening the modify menu then click document then u can change your settings…hope this helps
Have you heard of tweening? Have you heard of symbols (movie clips, buttons, or graphics)? You should look into those for “shortcuts” in animating. They are a little more compicated to teach so i would advise looking up some tutorials online. Try the “tutvid” channel on youtube. But the way tweens work, is you would create a symbol of any kind listed above (most commonly movie clip) then move forward in the time line and place a key frame. So you should have two key frames, both with the symbol (for example, a smiley face you drew) and some space inbetween (the elongated first keyframe). On the second key frame if you were to move the smiley face somewhere else on the screen ( or ratate, scale, change opacity, etc) , when played back, it would play the original image for a length of time and then quickly show the new frame you created. If you were to right click on the spce inbetween the keyframes, or the original keyframe, and select motion tween, when you played the movie back again, it would fill in the frames in between, so the smiley face would move accross the screen smoothely. This is a little hard to follow in text, but check out tutvid. Well done tus and quite helpful. Just be sure to find some basic ones to begin with.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/tutvid#p/c/A6E5FB31FA1DBDD6