Adobe Flash CS5 - help needed animating a sentence so each word fades in seperately

I am attempting to make a simple music video.
My aim is to have lyrics to the piece of audio appear in synchronisation.
There does not seem to be a simple way to fade in (and out) each word singularly allowing the alignment and sentence position to remain constant.
Please help.

Put the words on the stage as you want them to show when completed. Set that layer in the timeline as a masked layer. Add a new layer on top of that layer, set it to be a mask layer. In this new layer draw a rectangle that covers just the first word of your text. Move down a few frames and add a new keyframe to the mask layer. At this keyframe make the rectangle larger, to cover two words. Repeat as needed until all of the words are covered.
Here is a link to a video that shows something similar: Flash Masking Tutorial - YouTube

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Launch Internet Explorer and navigate to http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html
If you see an animation playing, then Flash Player is enabled.
If you don’t see an animation playing, then Flash Player is not enabled. In that case, click on the Tools icon in the top right corner of Internet Explorer. (The icon looks like a cogwheel.)
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Making a music video using Adobe flash - big help needed !!

am trying to make a music video for a uni project, one of the things I'm trying to do in the video is to fade in a word at a time in whilst keeping them all aligned properly as a sentence - is there an easy way to do this?
Any other hints or tips on how to make a video but one especially for music would be much appreciated !! I'm just using Adobe Flash and NOT Adobe Premier, thank you !!

dolly1011 wrote:
I'm just using Adobe Flash and NOT Adobe Premier, thank you !!
Then ask here:
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Adobe Flash CS5 Help!

Hi. I am new here. I was wondering if someone could please help. I have tried look for tutorials but just couldn't find one that could help me do want to do in Flash. I am trying to make an animiation. I have a background with some text on it. The text says Happy Birthday and below it says Start. I added a motion preset to Happy Birthday. I made an invisible button and added that to Start since I want the animation to start when you click on start. I added the acton GoToandStop on Press and Release to go to the frame where there is an image of the presents. The action works and when you click on Start it goes over to that frame where the image of the presents are and stops. However, even when I don't click on Start it still goes on over to the frame where the present images are - I don't want it to do that. What should I do so that it doesn't do that? What I am doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much.

Miguel,
Here is a link to a zip file with an FLA built what I imagine you are trying to accomplish, kind of:
http://swfhead.com/files/FlashBasics.zip
This is the very basics of using Flash with a little bit of ActionScript3.
You'll notice on the timeline I have 5 layers.
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     2. as - this is the layer where you will add any and all code
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     5. Start - this is simply static text.
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import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
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3. Install the latest version of Flash.
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11. Set the virtual memory paging file to the default size.
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        Note : I got this file "air3_rc1_sdk_win_090611.zip" and extrack files to "AIR2.6"
   2. Download and install Adobe Flash CS5.5.
   3. Closed Flash Professional CS5.5.
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          OSX: Applications/Adobe Flash CS5.5/
        Note : It's will replace WIN: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5.5\AIR2.6
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10. Open and Edit "AdobeAIR3_0.xml" to match below xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<players>
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    <path platform="MAC">Air2_5.bundle</path>
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    <feature name="apolloPublish" supported="true" />
    <feature name="apolloTestMovie" supported="force"/>
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    <feature name="useDefineFont4ForEmbeddedFonts"       supported="true" />
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11. Run Adobe Flash CS5.5 > File > New... > ActionScrip 3.0
12. Now you have new file "Untitled-1.fla" then add below code to frame 1.
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13. goto menu File > Publish Setting...   select target Player : AIR 3.0
14. Test with menu Control > Test Movie > in AIR Debug Launcher (Desktop)
15. Finally, you should have output in panel like this :
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AIR3.0 for iOS : open and edit "AiriPhone.xml" in "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5.5\Common\Configuration\Players"
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<publishobject2 id="Air2_5" version="3.0" intversion="3.0"></publishobject2>
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<path platform="MAC">Air2_5.bundle</path>
<playerdefinitionpath as2="$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP9;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP8;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP7" as3="$(AppConfig)/ActionScript 3.0/AIR3.0/airglobal.swc" />
    
    <feature name="multiScreenPublish" supported="false" />
    <feature name="mobileDebug" supported="true" />
    <feature name="apolloPublish" supported="true" />
    <feature name="apolloTestMovie" supported="force"/>
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    <feature name="apolloPackaging" supported="true"/>
    <feature name="publish_localPlaybackSecurity" supported="false" />
    <feature name="publish_hardwareAcceleration"      supported="true" />
    <feature name="useDefineFont4ForDeviceText"          supported="true" />
    <feature name="useDefineFont4ForEmbeddedFonts"       supported="true" />
    <feature name="textLayoutFramework"       supported="true" />
    <feature name="rslLinkageSuppressed"       supported="true" />
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<preset uuid="0c95a8ba-8b71-44d5-b269-8fd1cf89a6ed" name="F4V - Same As Source (Flash 9.2 and Higher)" ext="f4v" default="true"/>
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</players>
   AIR3.0 for Android : open and edit "Android.xml" in "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5.5\Common\Configuration\Players"
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<players>
<player id="android_0" version="13" asversion="3" minasversion="3">
    <name>AIR for Android</name>
<publishobject2 id="Air2_5_Android" version="3.0" intversion="3.0"></publishobject2>
<path platform="WIN">Air2_5_Android.dll</path>
<path platform="MAC">Air2_5_Android.bundle</path>
<playerdefinitionpath as2="$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP9;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP8;$(UserConfig)/Classes/FP7" as3="$(AppConfig)/ActionScript 3.0/AIR3.0/airglobal.swc" />
    
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    <feature name="useDefineFont4ForEmbeddedFonts"       supported="true" />
    <feature name="textLayoutFramework"       supported="true" />
    <feature name="rslLinkageSuppressed"       supported="true" />
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<preset uuid="0c95a8ba-8b71-44d5-b269-8fd1cf89a6ed" name="F4V - Same As Source (Flash 9.2 and Higher)" ext="f4v" default="true"/>
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</player>
</players>
Hope it's should work for you.
Thank,

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