Create slideshow with navigation buttons

I am trying to create a type of slideshow for my website using Catalyst. It's a little different, but for the most part like the scrolling advertisment slides on hulu.com. I'm trying to make the image fade into a window, then, every 5-10 seconds transition to a different image. At the bottom I would like to be able to click buttons to go back and forth between slides (just like hulu's buttons).
I've tried to create different states and animate them, like in this sutorial video: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/tutorials/animate/
I also tried to search the forums.. I'm sure this was discussed before but I haven't been able to find anything. I'm sorry if this will duplicate threads.
I'm attaching the working file. As you can see I'm just using colored vector boxes as placeholders. Once I figure out the transition stuff I will replace the boxes with photos.
Thanks for any help you can provide. I'm really excited about Catalyst, seems like a dream come true for an artist/designer.. I just hope I can get the hang of it.
Nate

Hi,
I think you're on the right track with the basic transitions. The easiest thing to do to make the transitions smoothly animate is to select one state transitions in the Timelines panel, like "ad1 > ad2", and click the "Smooth Transition" button. This will stretch out the default effects to .5 seconds in that transition. You can then tweak the timing if you like.
(Unfortunately, in the current beta we don't yet have a quick way to smooth a bunch of transitions, so you have to do that for each transition for now.)
Currently there isn't a way to set up a timer to automatically switch states every few seconds--this is something you'd have to set up in code. I'll note it as a feature request, though.
Thanks,
nj

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