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Create animations using the Timeline
Last updated 6/15/2014
11 Select OnEdgeTemplateCopy and press Ctrl+D (c-D) twice. This creates two more copies of the entire banner text.
12 Double-click the first OnEdgeTemplateCopy. In the text edit box, delete everything except the word “ON.” Then in
Properties, rename the text ON. It’s best to eliminate extra spaces when you’re animating single words or letters and
you should reduce the width the text box to fit the edited text.
13 Repeat step 12 to make text elements for the and EDGE. You now have three properly labeled words that you can
identify and animate independently. You may want to resize the text boxes’ width to match the words, as shown in
Figure 11.
14 Drag the word “ON” up so that it is above and slightly to the left of the stage. Drag the word “EDGE” so that it is
above and slightly to the right of the stage. Drag the word the straight up so that it is above the stage. These are the
starting positions for each of the words. They should be completely offstage.
15 Select “ON” and change the Rotate property to -30. Select “EDGE” and set the rotation to 30 degrees. These two
words will appear to drop in at an angle from their respective sides.
16 Select all three words and click the Location and Rotate Add Keyframe buttons. The starting positions for each word
are duly recorded in keyframes.
17 Drag the playhead to the half-second mark: 0:00.500. The entire animation will take a second, which is plenty of
time for a simple animation like this. You don’t want to bore your audience. Each word will take a half-second to
complete its move. Each word will start at a different moment.
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