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Chapter 1 ✦ SWiSHmax QuickStart

3. Click the frame on the image’s row on the Timeline where you want the new effect

to be placed. For the sample project, click Frame 31 on the map.jpg image’s row on the

Timeline to identify the location to place the new effect.

4. Right-click to open the shortcut menu again, and click Paste Effect. A copy of the

Fade In effect is added to the Timeline at the frame you selected in Step 3. For the

sample project, the copied effect is pasted to the Timeline starting at Frame 31 and

ending at Frame 56.

5. Adjust the length of the pasted effect, if desired. For the sample project, move the

mouse cursor over the right margin of the effect at Frame 56, and click drag left until

the effect reaches Frame 50, making the effect the length of the movie.

In addition to copying and pasting an effect for one object, you can paste the same effect to

other objects. In the sample project, a copy of the Fade In effect was added to the bkgd

Autoshape layer to make the animation smoother.

You may think this is quick, but the effect isn’t the right one because the idea is for the back-

ground image to fade in and then fade out again. Quite right. Follow these steps to modify the

copy of the effect:

1. Right-click the copy of the Fade In effect on the Timeline to open the context menu.

For the sample project, the second copy starts at Frame 31 and ends at Frame 50.

2. Click Properties in the shortcut menu to open the Fade In Settings dialog box.

Each time you open the Properties dialog box, the tab that was used when you last opened

the dialog box appears. For example, if you have been following along with the steps, earlier

you modified the Motion settings for the animation. This time, when you open the dialog

box, the Motion tab is displayed.

To quickly open the properties for an effect, you can double-click the effect’s rectangle on the

Timeline rather than using the shortcut menu.

3. Click the Fade tab and click Fade out. There are two directions for a fade. When you

select Fade out, the name of the dialog box changes to Fade Out Settings.

4. Click Close to close the dialog box. On the Timeline, shown in Figure 1-13, you see the

name of the effect has changed to Fade Out, which is what the background image is

supposed to do.

5. Click Play on the Control toolbar to preview the movie and see the effects you’ve

added. Don’t forget to save your project.

Figure 1-13: Read the name and length of the effects on the Timeline.

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