To preview the motion, you can use the playback controls in the Timeline panel.В They are circled in the snapshot below.Д¬lick the Play button to play the motion. Previewing Motion and Animation in Edge Animate You can have keyframes for both the X and Y coordinates at the same time so that your motion goes from side to side and up and down.В Each animation that you add to an element will have its own colored bar.В The motion we just added has a green bar, as shown below. NOTE: If you wanted, you could also add keyframes for the Y coordinate by using the same steps. Now that we have our motion added, we can unhide our rectangle element. Now you can move the playhead back and forth between the starting and ending keyframe to see the motion.В This is called scrubbing. NOTE: If you want the text to move straight across the screen, make sure your Y coordinate doesn't change. You can see the X coordinate where the motion starts: 44 px. To do this, press Shift+drag.Дrag the element to where you want it to appear once the motion is complete. Next, we are going to select our text element on the Stage, since this is the element for which we want to add motion. Now let's add the ending keyframe.В To do this, drag the playhead cross the timeline to the point where you want the motion to stop. The Auto-Keyframe mode is represented by the icon that looks like a stopwatch in the Timeline panel.В It is circled below.ДЄuto-Keyframe will automatically insert a keyframe whenever changes are made to an element across the timeline.В Auto-Transition makes sure the transitions between keyframes are smooth. Now that you have the starting keyframe, it's time to add the ending keyframe.В As we mentioned earlier, you don't have to worry about adding any more keyframes except for the starting and ending keyframes.В In other words, you don't have to add keyframes for every second of motion.В Edge Animate does this for you using the Auto-Keyframe and Auto-Transition modes. The Auto-Keyframe and Auto-Transition Modes If you look at the timeline, you can see that a keyframe has been added. We are choosing the X coordinate (instead of the Y) because we want our text to move across the Stage. To at the beginning keyframe, go to the Properties panel.В Click the empty diamond to the right of the X coordinate.В The diamond is a keyframe.В Clicking on it inserts a keyframe in the timeline at the position where the playhead is located. Simply click and drag on the playhead to move it. The playhead is circled in the snapshot below. Move the playhead in the timeline to 0:00. Next, select the text element on the left side of the Timeline panel. We are going to add motion to the text that we added earlier.В To do this, we will start by adding a beginning keyframe.ДЇirst, make sure the text element is visible, and it is not locked.В If other elements appear on top of the text element, you can hide them for the time being. These keyframes mark the begin time and the end time.В They are called keyframes because they mark key mark the start and end points in a transition. To designate begin and end times to Edge Animate, you will add keyframes to the timeline in the Timeline panel. In other words, you need to define begin and end times.В Edge Animate will do the rest for you, making sure the motion is smooth. Speed up or slow down motion and animationДЄll that you have to do to create motion is tell Edge Animate where you want an element to start moving, then where you want it to stop moving. Use the Auto-Keyframe and Auto-Transition modes to easily create motion We are going to add motion using keyframes. If you made that same shape move across the screen, then you would be adding motion to the shape.В In this article, we are going to add motion to the text. The change of location over time is called motion. The change of a property over time is called animation.В If you had a shape, then made that shape change colors over a thirty second period, then you would be animating the shape.

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