Using Onion Skinning Activate Onion Skinning Open a Timeline with a multiple frame animation.. Onion skin markers appear in the area above the frame numbers and the area of the range of
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In addition to moving the playhead in the Timeline to view your anima-tion, commonly called scrubbing, Flash provides a controller to navi-gate the Timeline The Controller resembles the transport controls on a VCR and can be used in the same way Additionally, you can export your Flash document into a Flash movie (a swf file) You do this to see your Flash movie in its final state, as there are some elements that are not viewable in the Flash Development environment, such as anima-tions contained in movie clip symbols and ActionScript functionality To preview basic animations from their own Timeline, you can use the Controller to preview them
Playing an Animation
Use the Controller to Play
an Animation
Click the Window menu, point to
Toolbars, and then click
Controller.
To stop the animation, click Stop.
To rewind to the first frame of the
animation, click Rewind To
Beginning.
To step back one frame, click Step
Back.
TIMESAVER Press the < key
to step back a frame
To play or stop the animation, click
Play.
TIMESAVER Press Return
(Mac) or Enter (Win) to play if
stopped or to stop if playing
To step forward one frame, click
Step Forward.
TIMESAVER Press the > key
to step forward a frame
To fast-forward to the end of the
animation, click Go To End.
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Flash Player
Click the Control menu, point to
Test Movie, and then click Test.
The Test command tests the movie
based on the current test option
Flash uses the document type the
default until you change it
For the in Flash Professional test
option, Flash exports the entire
Timeline and any other scenes
you've created into a SWF file that
plays in the Flash Player
TIMESAVER Press A+Return
(Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Win) to test a
movie
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Normally, the playhead shows one frame at a time—the frame it’s placed on As you play the Timeline, the Stage displays the content of one frame at a time, forming your animation Onion Skinning mode allows you to view multiple frames simultaneously This is useful for fine-tuning your animation, because you can see the content on the frames immediately preceding and following the active frame
Using Onion Skinning
Activate Onion Skinning
Open a Timeline with a multiple
frame animation
Click the Onion Skin Mode button
in the Status bar
Onion skin markers appear in the
area above the frame numbers
and the area of the range of
frames selected dims The frames
that precede the active frame and
the frames that follow appear in
varying degrees of shading on the
Stage, becoming lighter the further
they are from the active frame
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on all the frames.
Onion Skin Markers
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Open a Timeline with a multiple
frame animation
Click the Onion Skin Outlines
button in the Status bar
The frames that precede the
active frame and the frames that
follow appear as outlines on the
Stage
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Did You Know?
You can only edit the active frame.
This is the frame the playhead is on
The art that appears when Onion Skin
(regular and outline) is enabled is for
preview only
Onion Skin Outlines mode
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You can adjust the number of frames previewed in the onion skin by manually dragging the onion skin markers These markers have drag-gable handles that set the beginning and end of the onion skin The handles appear as brackets with small dots Alternately, you can set the range of the markers from the Modify Onion Markers popup menu
Modifying Onion Skin
Markers
Set Onion Skin Markers
Manually
Click the Onion Skin Mode button
in the Status bar, if necessary
Click on the small dot on either
end of the onion skin markers and
then drag to include or exclude
any consecutive frames in the
onion skin
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You can only edit the active frame in
the onion skin To edit other frames
and maintain the selected frames,
select Anchor Onion in the Modify
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Modify Onion Markers Window
Click the Modify Onion Markers
button
The Modify Onion Markers popup
appears
Select from the following options:
◆ Always Show Markers Keeps
Onion Skin Markers visible in
and out of Onion Skin mode
◆ Anchor Onion Maintains the
selected frames even if you
move the playhead
◆ Onion 2 Shows two frames
before and after the current
frame
◆ Onion 5 Shows five frames
before and after the current
frame
◆ Onion All Includes the entire
duration of the Timeline in the
markers
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out of Onion Skin mode.
Anchor Onion Prevents the Markers from moving as you
move your playhead.
Onion 2 Selects two frames before and after the
active frame.
Onion 5 Selects five frames before and after the
active frame.
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If you need to make changes to an entire animation or to a series of frames at once, you can select them in Edit Multiple Frames mode
When this feature is enabled, brackets appear similar to those in Onion Skinning mode Drag them to select the range of frames you want to edit This works well if you need to make global changes to your anima-tion such as resizing it or changing its locaanima-tion You can select an entire framespan or layer instead of moving or resizing the content on each individual frame separately
Editing Multiple
Frames
Select Multiple Frames
Open a Timeline with a multiple
frame animation
Click the Edit Multiple Frames
button in the Status bar
Click and drag the markers until
they include all the frames you
want to select
All of the content in the selected
frames appears on the Stage
Click the Selection tool on the
Tools panel
TIMESAVER Press V to select
the Selection tool
Drag a selection box around the
content on the Stage
You can make changes to location,
scale, effects, etc All the selected
frames will be affected
TIMESAVER Press A+A
(Mac) or Ctrl+A (Win) to select all
the content on all unlocked layers
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When Edit Multiple Frames is
acti-vated, it selects all of the frames on all
layers contained in the markers You
must lock any layers you don't want
included in the selection
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