Flash 8 Cookbook

12.4. Adding Transitions to Slide Presentations

Problem

You want to add transitions (fades, wipes, and so on) to your Slide presentation.

Solution

Use the built-in transitions and apply them to the slides.

Discussion

Flash Professional includes a set of standard transition effects you can use to determine how slides will animate when appearing and disappearing. You can add these transition effects to your slides using the Behaviors panel. To do so, just complete the following steps:

1. Select the slide in the Screen Outline pane for which you want to add the transition effect.

2. Open the Behaviors panel (Window → Development Panels → Behaviors or Shift-F3).

3. Click on the plus button to open the Add Behavior menu, and choose Screen → Transition.

4. In the Transitions dialog box, choose the options, including the type of transition, the direction (in or out), the duration of the transition in sections, the type of easing, and any other options specific to the transition type. Then click OK.

5. If you want to add a second transition, repeat steps 3 and 4. For example, you may want to add a transition for the slide as it appears and another for when it disappears. A transition applied to the in direction corresponds to the appearance of the slide, and a transition applied to the out direction corresponds to the disappearance of the slide.

See Also

Recipe 12.2