Operation Manual

Creating Animations 235
Compact
storyboard
A tool for tidying up your storyboard; any keyframes
containing only tweened objects are removed from the
storyboard.
Scale
storyboard
Expands or shrinks the whole storyboard. All keyframe
durations are automatically adjusted to fit proportionately
to the new Scale duration.
Adding sound
To complement the visual effect of your keyframe animation it's possible to add
audio. Sounds can be added either for the duration of a specific keyframe, or
when an action is applied to an object event (see Applying actions on p. 242 for
details on actions and events).
To add an audio clip:
1. On the Storyboard tab, click on the keyframe's Sound icon
(located below the frame's thumbnail).
2. From the dialog, navigate to your audio file, select it and click the
Open button.
To remove a selected keyframe's audio clip, right-click and select Clear
Background Sound.
Adding movies
As well as using sound in your keyframe animation, you can introduce movie
clips. The movie is inserted into your chosen keyframe as an object which like
any other object (QuickShape, Text, etc.) will need to be run forward for the
movie to play throughout the animation.
DrawPlus supports various video formats including Flash Video (FLV), Flash
SWF, AVI, WMV, and QuickTime.
To add a movie:
1. Select the keyframe to which the movie is to be added.
2. Select Movie Clip... from the Insert menu.
3. From the dialog, navigate to your movie file and select it.