Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Reversing Animation

Chapter 12

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Figure 12.26 The contextual menu for frames lets you

copy all selected frames with a single command.

Reversing Animation

Sometimes, you can save e ort by creating

just half the animation you need and letting

Flash do the rest of the work.  ink of the

candle  ame that grows and shrinks.  e

shrinking phase is the reverse of the growing

phase. You can make a copy of the growing-

 ame animation and then have Flash reverse it.

 e technique for reversing animation is the

same for shape tweens and classic tweens; you

can reverse the animation of motion tweens

in a variety of ways.

To reverse the animation created ...