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Hi,

Anyone here know how to tell web-animator to loop 3 times then end? 3 just a sample I mean to set number of loops? I ask cos some sites Time-out in this case only allow Flash banners to rotate 3 times…

Im not a Flash animator (though I do have Flash) and to honest can create basic banners in the App - But I do like the speed and ease of this new app -

Any pointers would be great

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Hi Justin

Did you know that there is a new section for EWA?

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HA! Thanks no I didnt - Ill ask over there
Thanks

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I think the only way you can do it is to create the banners on the
timeline and have the timeline run the for the set amount of frames
according to fps rate your preferences are set to in the file. for
example at 25 fps 50 frames = 2 seconds(supposedly). It get more
complicated if you want to fade in and out from one banner to another
because you either have to start with a full banner no fade and finish
with a fade out on to the first banner or fade i the first banner and
then fade out the last banner to the first banner but on the last
frame got the frame where the first banner shows in full.

I think I made that sound really complicated and it shouldnt be. If
you get stuck let me know.

regards

Adam

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On 18 Apr 2010, at 17:02, Justin Easthall wrote:

HA! Thanks no I didnt - Ill ask over there
Thanks

J

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sorry meant that one banner rotates a certain amount of times- example the banner shows an address, then pic, then a click here button, does this 3 times then ends…

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Thats fine Justin just as I said at the start just build the animation
using for example 25 frames per second you wan to show that information

regards

Adam

On 18 Apr 2010, at 17:38, Justin Easthall wrote:

sorry meant that one banner rotates a certain amount of times-
example the banner shows an address, then pic, then a click here
button, does this 3 times then ends…

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Thanks - confused I admit. Are you saying to have the movie run once but have the movie to do the motions 3 times?

So there is no loop parameters that can be set?

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Hi Justin,
Here’s how I would do this;

  1. Create your animation how you want it.
  2. Edit/Select All and Edit/Copy
  3. Select Page/ New Page
  4. Paste
  5. Repeat steps 2-4 again for the third page
  6. With just the 3rd page selected click on the Action Settings button
    in the Properties panel
  7. Click Add
  8. Operation: End of page, Action: Stop

The animation should now play the three pages automatically and then
at the end of the third stop. You can then add an action to the last
frame of the third page to repeat the animation if you wanted.
Regards,
Tim.

On 18 Apr 2010, at 21:19, Justin Easthall wrote:

Thanks - confused I admit. Are you saying to have the movie run once
but have the movie to do the motions 3 times?

So there is no loop parameters that can be set?

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Thanks Tim - I understand this. Would this cause file bloat do you think? The limit Im working to is 40k… At the moment with the file constantly looping it comes in at 15k, but this is in effect ‘one page’ in EWA lingo - 3 pages could bloat? I would try - but not at my computer that has this installed… having said that I could download the demo and try…Ill do that…

Cheers Tim

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Hi Justin,
Yes I suspect it will make the SWF larger than it would need to be if
you could use ActionScript but since you don’t have direct access to
this in EWA I don’t there will be another way to do this.
You may get better file compression if you can save the animation as a
movie clip and use this in each of the three pages. EWA should be
aware that each page is using the same clip and optimize the output
accordingly.
Give it a go and see where you make the best file size savings.
Regards,
Tim.

On 19 Apr 2010, at 09:57, Justin Easthall wrote:

Thanks Tim - I understand this. Would this cause file bloat do you
think? The limit Im working to is 40k… At the moment with the file
constantly looping it comes in at 15k, but this is in effect ‘one
page’ in EWA lingo - 3 pages could bloat? I would try - but not at
my computer that has this installed… having said that I could
download the demo and try…Ill do that…

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Thanks Tim - testing now

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