Slideshow and animated Text-

Simply trying to employ FC to create a rotating slideshow of images with text overlaying the images. I want this slideshow to play indefinitely and to be able to animate and fade the text in and out with the slides. I wouldn't mind having some interactivity off to the side to link out to specific pages and that seems pretty easy to accomplish after reading through and watching the videos. But the "never-ending" slideshow is somehow eluding my logic.
If anyone has some ideas how to set this up, it would be appreciated!
James

Attached is an fxp file where I created a custom component called "Slide Show". The component has several states each with a different colored square on it. I went to each of the transitions I cared about and clicked the "smooth transition" button to get a nice cross fade between each state.
In order to make the slide show play, I created a "Play" button at the app level and made the button play an action sequence when clicked. In the action sequence I added several "Set Component State" actions, each setting the "Slide Show" component to a different state. I then spaced out the actions in the timeline to control the timeline.
As for repeat, unfortunately, Fc beta II doesn't expose the repeat functionality that is available on effects in the SDK. You can go to Flex Builder with this fxp file and add repeatCount="0" to the <Parallel> tag that corresponds to the action sequence to get the behavior. Check out the code in the attached fxp file to see the change I made.
Ty

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if (document.location.protocol != 'https:') document.write('\x3Cscript src="http://musecdn.businesscatalyst.com/scripts/1.1/jquery-1.7.min.js" type="text/javascript">\x3C/script>');
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Animation in illustrator cs4: pan & rotate across large image while animating text?

Hi there -
I have a fairly large circular starmap image - it's a fantasy piece simulating an ancient painted star map with stars, ancient constellation figures, and calligraphic text. Basically a bitmap background from PShop, vector layers with stars, constellations and text. I want to export from Illustrator to Flash a number of short 'movies' of different views of this artwork panning from one point to another with possible zoom and rotation around the image as it pans. I also want to animate one or more of the constellation shapes as the movie pans, as well as adding momentary effects to some of the text.
I'm familiar with setting up a non-panning animation in illustrator using layers as animation 'cells' and exporting to Flash. But is it possible to do this while moving across a large piece of artwork? How can I capture and export a specific 'view' which moves across the larger image and/or zooms in or out, while also animating a shape or text glow for example? Would this be accomplished with a mask set to the aspect ratio of the final movie which is moved/resized/rotated from layer to layer?
Is this even possible in Illustrator CS4? I'm not familiar with Premier or AE, hoping to stay within Illy and Flash.
Thanks!

Thanks Monica,
After researching, it looks like Sony Vegas can be used to create a freeflowing video 'fly-over' of the artwork. And then at specific points I can import and animate the Illustrator vector pieces with After Effects - just a 'bit' of a learning curve now...

Modifying animated text in iDVD themes

In themes with animated text, such as "Pass Through" (a v6.0 theme), what text object is used to define the actual text that is animated? and if that text object is deleted, how can it be re-added? (presuming that the undo function cannot be used due to a save since its deletion)
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Can't answer your question directly, but would suggest re-doing your iDVD project with your new knowledge. Perhaps play with your theme to get it how you want before importing the videos.
John

Slideshow of JUST text, no images

Is there any way to create a slideshow of just text without having to create a PNG image of the text itself? I want it to be live type.

Yes, the various widgets found in the compositions section of the widget panel are for this purpose. Though many of them have an image placed in their default state, you can just delete the image and design using only text.
To turn it into a slide show, use the little blue arrow that shows up when you select the widget. Clicking it will bring up the menu associated with the widget. In that menu, you will see a drop down titled "Auto Play". Change it's value to the one that best suits your needs.

Animating Text / Type

I'm tying to animate a line of text / type in Director and
I'm not sure what is the best way to go about it .
Can someone confirm that I cannot animate type with Director
the same way I can in Flash? I know I can make it move and so on,
but I want my type to shrink in size as it's animation.
I know I could make a bitmap of the piece of text, but I'd
rather avoid that if at all possible. I thought about drawing the
piece of text in the vector drawing tool with Director, but I find
that quite difficult. Adobe Illustrator is easier for that, so I
drew my piece of text with Illustrator, but I'm having trouble
importing to Director.
Cananyone suggest anything?

Yes, animating text in Director is very different from
animating text in
Flash. Director's sprites follow very different rules than
Flash's
symbols. Each of Director's sprite types follow unique rules.
Text and field sprites have a one to one relationship with
the
originating member. If you alter the sprite, you alter the
member. This
is unique to these sprite types. Consequently, you can't zoom
a text or
field sprite. You can change the rect of the member, but this
won't
change the size of the type inside the member, or sprite.
The most common methods for animating text are to use a
bitmap version
or to use Flash. Since Flash text is a vector, it will be a
smaller file
size, and it will scale better.
If you create art in illustrator, you can save that file out
as an .swf
or import it into Photoshop and save it as a transparent
.png.
Rob
Rob Dillon
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.ddg-designs.com
412-243-9119
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