Okay, let's try it again.
- Start up Swish Max.
- This time when you start it up, pick one of the movie templates.
- Click OKAY.
- For the purposes of the example, I'm using Large Rectangle.
- You'll end up with a large, white box in the lower middle of your screen.
- This is your "stage." It's where the performance happens.
- There is a vertical toolbar to the left of the stage area.
- Click on the Text Tool and draw a text box on the stage.
- If you click in the text box, you should be able to start typing.
- Type a simple phrase, such as "I know what we're going to do today. Where's Perry?"
- The time line is located at the top of the screen.
- Next to the timeline is a button labelled Add Effect.
- When you click this, pick the Appear into Position
- If you click the blue, triangular Play button at the top of the screen, your animation will play, over and over.
- The square button beside it will stop your animation.
- You'll notice that on the timeline at the top, a red cursor scrolls by keeping time as the letters appear on the screen.
- The cursor scrolls by the individual boxes or frames, creating an animation similar to what you did with paper and a camera.
- What you might also notice, is that there are separate time lines for everything on the screen.
- There's one for the scene, one for the shape, and one for the effect.
- At the end of the effect. on the timeline, you'll notice a dot. This dot means that this frame is a Key Frame.
- Place your cursor in the effect timeline, just after the key frame.
- From the Add Effect menu pick Disappear from Position
- Then pick Bubble Burst.
- Notice that your timeline is extended with the new effect and there is a key frame added at the end of the new effect.
- Try playing the effect to see the text appear and disappear.
- Trade the effects I've suggested for other ones until you think you've got an animation you like.
- Use the text tools on the right to make your animation pretty, and then post it to the web.
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