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Animation Frame Rate and Tween Steps
Flash animations run at a fixed frame rate. The faster the frame rate, the smoother the resulting animation
and the larger the Flash file. Web Designer MX Premium animations default to showing 24 frames per
second, but you can change this.
When you create each key frame, you determine how long the period is until the next key frame. For
example, if a frame period is set to half a second, this means the animation from that key frame to the
next will take half a second. At 24 frames per second this means there will be 11 intermediate steps
generated by Web Designer MX Premium in the Flash animation, so 12 frames in all. (These intermediate
"tween" frames are not ever seen in Web Designer MX Premium and are only generated when you
create the Flash file.)
The Frame Gallery
always shows you the
display period for each key
frame. In this example
three frames are displayed
for half a second each, so
the whole animation lasts
1.5 seconds before
repeating.
To create a longer tween
effect (in other words to
slow the animation down)
increase the display period
using the Animation
Properties
dialog.
The easiest way to alter the display period for any frame is to just double click on the frame name you
want to alter to bring up the dialog, enter the new period in seconds, and click OK or Apply
.
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