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Copying motion paths - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Creating Animations
Copying motion paths
- Sometimes you'll encounter a project where you need more than one custom motion path. Let me show you an example from a recent project of mine. Here we have musical notes flying out. You can almost hear the trumpet playing. All of these notes that are moving had to follow the path of the music lines here. Let me show you a couple of tricks for setting this up. I'm gonna turn to page two of this file where I have one of the notes with the animation taken off of it. Now, there are a couple of ways to address this. For one thing, I have another note here that has a motion path on it that follows this middle line here. One way I can do this is to copy the path from another note. So I'm gonna click on this note and then I'm gonna click on the path itself. Now the motion path is selected and I'm gonna copy it into the clipboard, command or control C, and then I'm gonna click elsewhere on the page and paste it. So there's my path ready to go. And again, this is just an example of how these…
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