A Swish Question

[Davey]

Hi. I am new so please forgive my ignorance.
I was noodling around with Swish and wanted to insert a little animated text onto a page.
I want it to start say, 16 seconds after the
page loads. My Swish Timelines always give
me 200 frames (at 20 frames per second this
would come to 10 seconds). Thus I thought
perhaps to add a blank scene ("pre-scene")
and then have my little animation begin at
frame 120 of the "2nd" scene.

Is it possible to increase the number of frames in a given scene, or must
one add empty scenes to stretch time?

Also, anyone have any good suggestions to
ease the pain of learning Flash? Any good
tutorial sites or other means?

Swish is great. Thanks in advance.
Davey-

[ichu]

Hi Davey,

Click on Timeline and in the Number of Frames box, type 400 (or whatever number of frames you want).

Regards,
Ichu

[Davey]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ichu:
Hi Davey,

Click on Timeline and in the Number of Frames box, type 400 (or whatever number of frames you want).

Regards,
Ichu<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hi Ichu-

Thanks for answering.
I had previously tried that but each time
I change the number of frames in the box on
the timeline window, it reverts back to 200.
That's why the idea to add empty scenes.

What am I doing wrong?

Davey

[JHarbin]

One way of doing this....create a blank scene #1. Increase the number of frames to 320 to give you 16 seconds. Create a text item in this scene and put a "Hide action in frame 320. This will force the movie to play through all 320 frames with no action. Thus giving you your 16 seconds. You can then start your real movie on frame 1 of scene 2.



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Jim Harbin
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[Brad Halstead]

Another way...

Would be to add the hide effect to frame 1 of scene 1 and then a show effect on the frame of your choosing. You shouldn't have to use a blank scene to do this. If you have no effects attached to the text, then slide down the timeline after the SHOW and insert a HIDE and that way it will run it's length.

Does that help?

Brad Halstead

[JHarbin]

Advantage that I would see by splitting into a blank 16 second scene and a "real" movie scene would be during testing. With 2 scenes you can test your movie by playing just a scene instead of the complete movie and having to wait 16 seconds every time you want to preview your movie.

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Jim Harbin
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