Defining frames and keyframes

Being able to create and manipulate frames and keyframes in the Timeline is key…to controlling the flow of your Flash animations.…If you open the file called framesAndKeyframesPreview.swf from the start file in…the exercise files for this chapter, you'll see what we're building towards in this tutorial.…So the elephant shows up first, then the monkey, and then the giraffe.…The whole thing lasts four seconds and then starts over.…The staggered pace of appearance is through the use of frames and keyframes,…so let's take a look.…I'll close the preview SWF and then open up the file called…framesAndKeyframes.fla in the start folder in the exercise files, and then I'll…save a copy of it right away into the end folder.…

You can see that we've got four layers here: the background layer, which already…has our familiar jungle background, and then an elephant, monkey, and giraffe…layers, which don't have anything on them yet.…In the Property inspector, you see that we're at a frame rate of 24 frames per second,…