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Getting Started Using Timelines

Flashing Triangle

This tutorial assumes you have already completed tutorial one.

Create a new movie, add a triangle to the library and then add the triangle to the timeline.


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Double click at intervals along the timeline to create frames at five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five and thirty.


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Select frame five in the timeline.


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In the properties for the frame, turn off 'Visible'.


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The frame on the timeline will now appear as an empty dot.


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Do the same for the frames at fifteen, twenty five and thirty five.


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The triangle should now be visible for the first five frames, invisible for the next five frames and so on.

To see the animation that has been created, click 'Play' on the toolbar or from the 'Movie' menu.

The triangle should flash at five frame intervals.


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Getting Started Using Timelines