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Customizing animations via Snippets

Customizing animations via Snippets - InDesign Tutorial

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Customizing animations via Snippets

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- In this video, I'm going to show you how to extend the capabilities of InDesign's Animation panel by editing snippets. The Animation panel is great but there are certain settings we can't really adjust. For example, the opacity only goes from zero to 100% or vice versa with our Fade In and Fade Out Presets. Wouldn't it be nice if we could, for example, have something start at 100% opacity and fade out to 20% opacity so we can still see it. One way to do this is to use snippets. They're normally not used for this purpose but they will work great for us here. Let me show how it's done. I'm gonna build in a new capability so that I can fade something out to 20% opacity. The first step is to start with an object and I'm gonna apply a Preset that's close to the one I want to create. In this case, Fade Out. Next, I'm gonna export this as a snippet. So I'll go to the File menu and Export. I need to make sure that the format is set to InDesign Snippet. And then I'm gonna this snippet a…

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