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Working with grouped animations in MSOs

Working with grouped animations in MSOs - InDesign Tutorial

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Working with grouped animations in MSOs

- You can include animated objects in individual states in an MSO as we've seen in another video. If your animated objects have one animation applied to individual objects, the process is pretty straightforward. You just make an MSO. But if you have to apply an animation to a group, it turns out there's a little trick involved. Let's take a look. I'm going to show you this page in the preview panel. Here, we have a button that's set to Go to Next State. Each state fades in and then moves objects over. Fade in, and move over. These require grouped animations. And they require a little bit different treatment in an MSO in order for them to work. Let me show you what I mean. I'm going to go to the next page of this file where some of my objects are not yet animated, and nothing has been put into an MSO. I'll go to the Layers panel, and I'm going to isolate one of these groups of animations. I'm going to hold down the option or alt key, and click on the Exercise layer. And here we have…

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