Line animation

I want to show intersection lines by making the line appear from left or from top from small portion to the whole line. I can do this by 2 ways:
1) Cutting the line into small portion on each frame. When playhead moving from first frame to the last frame, the line showing from small portion to bigger portion and lastly the whole line. This is very tedious if I have thousands of intersection lines.
2) By mask. Showing the mask part from small portion to the whole line.
My question : Is there a short cut ? or faster way to do this ?

are these all straight lines? if yes, then it's easy to do with actionscript.

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after an update of the graphics card driver to the newest just released version the problem has vanished.
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I have created e-learning animation demo in using edge animate tool.
I want to add voiceover in this demo & functionality (play/ pause button, sound on/off)
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So I'm trying to animate a logo. I have story-boarded the basics of the animation in Illustrator. Here it is.
Imagine you squirt some silly-string underwater, and at the end of the silly string is a heavy marble. The string shoots out and the marble pulls the elastic string tight and recoils. The string recoils into the wordmark.
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stop();
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