Now comes the easy part—the part that we already covered in Lesson 2. All you have to do now is select all of frames 1-12, and then go to the Properties panel and select Tween -> Shape from the dropdown. Frames 1-12 should turn pale green, and an arrow will connect the keyframes in the first and last frames. When you scrub your timeline you should be able to watch the fireworks start from nothing and then grow larger.
Flash Animation 4: Animating Your E-card
By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com
So now you’ve got 13 frames of an animated movie clip that...well...isn’t really animated. To take care of that, let’s go back to frame 1. Click on that frame in your timeline, and then use your Arrow Tool to select all of the shapes/fills of the fireworks burst on your stage. (Make sure you’re on frame 1 when you do this.) Then use the Free Transform tool to scale the fireworks in the first frame down as small as you can, to the point of near-invisiblity.
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- Movie Clips
- Editing a Movie Clip
- Setting Up A Shape Tween Inside a Movie Clip
- Finishing Your Shape Tween
- Returning to Your Main Stage, Previewing
- Extending the Length of Your Animation
- Using a Motion Tween to Animate Opacity
- Setting Alpha for a Symbol
- Applying a Motion Tween to animate Opacity
- Conclusion
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