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021 Making your own motion path

021 Making your own motion path - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

021 Making your own motion path

Anne-Marie Concepcion: If you're like me, one of the first things that you did when you opened up InDesign CS5, the one that came out with all the cool new animation features, was to open up anyone of your documents, select an object and have it start whipping around the page which is a lot of fun to do. But what I want to show you is that you are not limited to the built-in animations. All these animations, the paths that the objects move along, are completely editable to you in InDesign. In fact you can create your own paths with InDesign tools or from Illustrator. So let's see how that works. First I am going to select this text frame that says Golden Gate and then from the Animation panel I am going to choose one of the presets, just a real simple one. Let's try Fly in from Left. So that adds a green line that shows us the motion path, so this green thing is the motion path, and you'll see a little proxy animate showing you how this is going to work. If you want to see how Golden…

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