Emergency, very frustrated! Just need to make a basic banner without reading an entire book!

Question

I need to make a flash banner with three images, with a simple "cover left" or "reveal to right" type transition between them with maybe a 7 second delay and then repeat infinitely.
I have been trying for days to do it in various programs, and have resorted to flash but I'm out of time. Could anyone tell me the simplest way to do it? Thanks

Answer 1

Flash might have some built-in transitions, though I am not aware of them.  WHat you will want to do is create symbols out of each of the images, graphic or movieclip symbols will work fine for timeline tweening.  Here's some hopefully simple instructions for doing a timeline Tween using what are known as Classic Tweens.
Take one of your image symbols and place it in a keyframe on its own layer.  Estimate the number of frames for the transition time you want to realize and right click on that frame down the timeline in the same layer .  Choose Insert Keyframe.  That will place another insatnce of the same symbol in that frame, with the first nstance extending to the frame just before it.  Next, you can right click the first frame and choose Create Classic Tween.  That should cause the section between the two keyframes to turn blue with an arrow extending from one to the other.
The next thing you can do is adjust the conditions of each of the instances, whether you intend to have it move or to gradually fade in/out or whatever.  After you have made the adjustments desired to one or both of the instances, you should be able to either scrub the timeline or play the file and see the tarnsition occur.
Note:  To fade in/out you want to set the alpha property of the object via the Properties panel Color Effect selections.
Your best bet will be to play with it and hopefully get a handle on it quickly so that you can work out the rest of what you intend.  If you do not put a stop() command in the timeline, then the movie should loop continuously.  If you want a smooth tarnsition between the end and the tstart, just relaize that you need to have the end of the animation transition into what it will be at frame 1.