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Create animations using the Timeline
Last updated 6/15/2014
18 Select “ON” and set the Rotate property back to 0, and move “ON” over the same word in the positioning template.
If you want to review the motion, drag the playhead back and forth. If necessary, you can readjust the start or end
point. Just move the playhead into position and tweak the word’s position.
19 Move the playhead to 0:00.250. Then select the word “the” and click the Location Add Keyframe button. The plan
here is to start the word “the” moving before “ON” has finished its movement. However, you want the word “the” to
remain motionless for the first quarter-second, so you must create two location keyframes with identical values at
0:00.000 and 0:00.250.
20 Drag the playhead to 0:00.750, and then move “the” over the same word in the positioning template. Use the
Timeline Zoom slider to get a better view of the timeline. The units of measure at the top of the timeline change
depending on the zoom level. (Figure 11)
No rotation is used for “the”, so this word will appear to drop straight down.
21 Move the playhead to 0:00.500. Select “EDGE” and click the Location and Rotate Add Keyframe buttons.
This keeps “EDGE” in place for the first half-second of the animation.
22 Move the playhead to 0:01, and then drag “EDGE” into place over the positioning template.
At the 1-second mark on the timeline, the words have finished their journey, and the first version of the animation
is comp
lete, except for removing the positioning template.
Before you remove the red positioning template, you probably want to preview the animation. Press Home and then
the space
bar to get a look. If necessary, you can continue to tweak the starting and ending points for the animated
words. For example, you might prefer it if “ON” and “EDGE” drop in first and the word “the” is added last.
Dealing with the Template
The red positioning template isn’t meant to be a permanent part of the animation. So if you’re happy with everything,
you can remove it. First turn off the Lock Element button to make the Template selectable. Then you can select the
template in either the Elements panel or on the stage and press Delete. As an alternative, you could turn the template
into a drop shadow (Figure 13) or glow effect for the text.
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