Flash Animation Tutorial: Automatic Key Frames

Video Transcript

"Okay, so we've got, we've got our animation here. And it's looking, well it's looking. Let's create a new layer and show you how we can interact with a, with a second object. Let's create another circle. Let's make this one red. Select the whole thing, Control G or Apple G, to group it. Now let's set a key frame. In fact, if we just move it over here and we don't set any key frames, see right now it's just an object that's right there. If we move to the end point, and I'm going to just move the object itself. It doesn't create another key frame. Remember how before, when we just moved the object, it created it's own key frame. Well it doesn't here because the key frame that it's affecting is the very first one. It will only do that if you're in between key frames. So, let me hit F6 to create a new key frame. Move that to the beginning, move this object over here. Then I hit the left, sorry, right mouse button and create the motion tween. Now you can see that it's moving independent. Now because we're sandwiched between two key frames, if I go into the middle and I select the circle, and I move it, now it will automatically create any key frames I want. Because it's in, as long as it's in between two key frames. So, I can move it here and it automatically creates a key frame. I can move it here and it automatically creates a new key frame. So, that's the difference between create, creating key frame, key frames up on the time line, and creating key frames that just by moving the object. So, let's see what we've got. Now we've got this nice animation going on and we've got two levels and we understand the difference between key framing up on the time line and key framing just by moving the objects."