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Using the Motion Presets panel to save and apply animations

Using the Motion Presets panel to save and apply animations - Flash Professional Tutorial

From the course: Flash Professional CS5 Essential Training

Using the Motion Presets panel to save and apply animations

With the Motion Presets panel, you can apply pre-made animations to objects on the Stage or you can save and reuse your own animations. In this movie we will take a look at the Motion Presets panel and how you can use it to be more efficient when you are working in Flash. So, on this Stage I have an animation of an olive moving down. The olive bounces when it hits the ground. So let's say I wanted to make that animation apply to another olive. So I have an olive at the right side of the screen here. To save the animation as a Motion Preset, right-click your animation in the timeline and then choose Save as Motion Preset. Now we can give this a name. I could call it Olive Drop or I can give it something more generic that might be more useful for another object later on. So I'll just call this Simple Bounce. So I'll click OK and then I am going to open the Motion Presets panel. If you don't see the Motion Presets panel, you can find it by going to Window > Motion Presets. In the Motion…

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