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Defining frame labels

Defining frame labels - Adobe Animate Tutorial

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Defining frame labels

- [Instructor] Working with frame labels in Animate is a bit like the use of markers in other timeline-based software programs. They're applied to keyframes, and can be used to designate certain sections of animation in your project for quick reference in a visual and descriptive way. Let's go ahead and create a new layer above our circle layer by clicking the New Layer icon, and we'll double-click on the layer name and rename this to whatever we would like, but since this is going to contain labels, we're going to name it Labels. Now, we have a blank keyframe at frame one, and if we look over in the Properties panel, we can see the properties for this particular frame. And going down to about midway, we see there's a Label section where we can provide a label name. Let's go ahead and just call this label begin, since this is the beginning of our animation. All right, now that we've added that frame label, we can see a little flag here on frame one, and the text, begin, is attached to…

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