Animated Text on Magazine Cover

Hello,
I am trying out DPS for one month and trying to create an animated cover for a magazine. I have a couple of issues which would be great if I could get help with, I am a newbie.
1) I have imported an image into the publication as image sequences. The movie was exported as PNG from Photoshop. When I view on the motion, it is not smooth and I have increased the frame rate to 25 fps? Is this an issue?
2) I wanted the Magazine title to fade in. I applied an animation effect to the text and the SWF preview shows it fading in. However on the ipad viewer test, there is no animation. If this is a limitation, any ideas on how it is done?
Thanks in advance
Mik
London

You'll find many tutorials on adobe tv site but from my little experience my advice to you if you use edge or after effects ( image seq.) animate only sections separately and leave the static parts like background as one png image. Then bring your animated sections to indesign and position them there.. like the header and all other titles.
The bakground is static png the moving chair is image seq. overlay.. the button is html
( edge animated ) .. much much light page.

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