Adobe Flash Professional CS3 - Manual (Page 77)

FLASH CS3
User Guide
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Copy or paste a frame or frame sequence
❖ Do one of the following:
• Select the frame or sequence and select Edit > Timeline > Copy Frames. Select the frame or sequence that you
want to replace, and select Edit > Timeline > Paste Frames.
• Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Macintosh) and drag the keyframe to the location where you want to paste it.
Delete a frame or frame sequence
❖ Select the frame or sequence and select Edit > Timeline > Remove Frame, or right-click (Windows) or
Control-click (Macintosh) the frame or sequence and select Remove Frame from the context menu.
Surrounding frames remain unchanged.
Move a keyframe or frame sequence and its contents
❖ Drag the keyframe or sequence to the desired location.
Change the length of a tweened sequence
❖ Drag the beginning or ending keyframe left or right. To change the length of a frame-by-frame animation
sequence, see “Create frame-by-frame animations” on page 231.
Extend the duration of a keyframe animation
❖ Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) and drag the keyframe to the frame that you want to be the final
frame of the sequence.
Convert a keyframe to a frame
❖ Select the keyframe and select Edit > Timeline > Clear Keyframe, or right-click (Windows) or Control-click
(Macintosh) the keyframe and select Clear Keyframe from the context menu.
The Stage contents of the cleared keyframe and all frames up to the subsequent keyframe are replaced with the Stage
contents of the frame preceding the cleared keyframe.
Add an item from the library to the current keyframe
❖ Drag the item from the Library panel onto the Stage.
About multiple timelines and levels
Flash Player has a stacking order of levels. Every Flash document has a main Timeline located at level 0 in Flash
Player. You can use the
loadMovie action to load other Flash documents (SWF files) into Flash Player at different
levels.
If you load documents into levels above level 0, the documents stack on top of one another like drawings on trans-
parent paper; when there is no content on the Stage, you can see through to the content on lower levels. If you load
a document into level 0, it replaces the main Timeline. Each document loaded into a level of Flash Player has its own
Timeline.
Timelines can send messages to each other with ActionScript. For example, an action on the last frame of one movie
clip can tell another movie clip to play. To use ActionScript to control a Timeline, you must use a target path to
specify the location of the Timeline.
For a video tutorial about using multiple timelines, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0128 .