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466 Animations

Note: When opening older documents created with earlier versions of Web Designer
Premium, these will not clip to the page (the page size was huge), instead they clip to the
size of the drawing. You can control this in the Animation Properties dialog.

Setting the area to save to be Drawing will create a Flash animation that is only as large
as it needs to be – i.e. the same as the outer bounds of the animation. This can be useful
if you don’t need a specific page size.

Animation Speed

When you create a new keyframe, it defaults to having a period of half a second. So the
animation from that keyframe to the next will take half a second. The longer you set the
period, the slower the animation. To set the frame period for any frame, first select the
desired frame in the FRAME GALLERY (click on it), and then click the ANIMATION
PROPERTIES button (or just double click the frame name).

Setting "Display This Frame For" to 2 seconds means the animation will take 2 seconds to
tween from this key frame to the next.