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Adding and removing property keyframes with the Motion Editor

Adding and removing property keyframes with the Motion Editor - Flash Professional Tutorial

From the course: Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

Adding and removing property keyframes with the Motion Editor

In the Motion Editor, you can actually add and remove property keyframes pretty easily. In this movie, we'll look at just how to do that. Let's say for our sun animation we want the sun to move up diagonally and then move down diagonally. So the sun rises and then sets. Let's take a look at how to do that. I'll select my animation in the Timeline, then go to the Motion Editor panel. I'll expand the panel. Then I am going to press my keyboard shortcut Command or Ctrl+2 to zoom out. So, the first thing I want to do is adjust the X property of my animation. So, I am going to move to the last frame of the animation by selecting the property keyframe in the Motion Editor. Then I am going to click-and-drag the X slider to move the sun to the right. So, now when I preview the animation, the sun moves diagonally. Then I'll make the sun hold for a little bit and then go back down to the right. To make it hold, I'll move the playhead a little bit to the right and then I'll insert a property…

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