Timeline

What will you learn

• Definition of different frame views
• Frames tasks
• Viewing animation

Defintion of different frame views

• No Frame
• Blank Frame
• Keyframe
• Blank Keyframe
• Last Frame
• Frame with Action
• Frame with label
• Frame with Anchor
• Motion Tween
• Incomplete Motion Tween
• Shape Tween

Frame Tasks

When you right click at a frame you can do the following:

• Insert Frame
• Remove Frame
• Clear Keyframe
• Insert Keyframe
• Insert Blank Keyframe
• Convert to Keyframes
• Convert to Blank Keyframe
• Cut Frame
• Copy Frame
• Paste Frame

Viewing Animation

We shall examine the icons shown here in the timeline

• Playhead is used to control the playing of the movie
  
  
  At the bottom we have :
• When Onion Skin icon is selected the motion tween is shown in this way:
  
  The playhead shows :
• Onion Skin Outlines shows the motion tween in outline
  
• Currect Frame the playhead is playing
• Frame Rate (frames per second is 12 in this case)
• Time elapsed
  
  To play the movie go to Control > Play
• To test the movie go to Control> Test Movie
  This will also create the .swf file
  

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