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Creating frames, keyframes, and blank keyframes

Creating frames, keyframes, and blank keyframes - Flash Professional Tutorial

From the course: Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

Creating frames, keyframes, and blank keyframes

Let's take a look at creating frames in Flash. I'm going to create all of my frames on the background layer. Remember that regular frames indicate no change in artwork. So if I lock every layer except for the background layer, no matter where I have the playhead, I'm going to be editing that first keyframe because there is only one keyframe on the background layer. So let's say I move the sun over. I scrub the playhead. The sun is over for the whole animation. I'm going to undo that change. Let's look at adding a keyframe. To add a keyframe, select a frame in a layer by single clicking. So I'm going to single-click in the background layer one of the regular frames, so we'll see that it's selected. You can tell that it's selected because it has a bluish background. Here I'm going to add a keyframe so that I can change the artwork on this frame. To add a keyframe, you can go to Insert > Timeline > Keyframe. Notice that it doesn't show a keyboard shortcut for keyframe or blank keyframe…

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