Uneven morphing of Shape Tween (Text)

I am using Adobe Flash Professional CS6 for a slideshow, and am using shape tweens as text transition between slides. However, when I transition from a paragraph of text to a single line of text, half the paragraph will form the last alphabet, which isn't very appealing. Is there anyway I can distribute the morphing of the alphabets from the alphabets of the paragraph's text into the line of text such that it becomes more even? I tried fragmenting each the alphabet in attempt to "fool" the shape tween so that it may use more alphabets from the paragraph for each alphabet in the line, but it doesn't seem to work.
This is what I'm referring to:
Paragraph:
Transition:
Line:
Help! Thanks a lot! ^^

Shape Hints
To improve the quality of the morph, you can add shape hints to each keyframe. Shape hints let you tell Flash precisely which points in each vector to match up during the tween. So, if you add shape hints matching the corners of the square with the secondary anchor points of the circle, the morph will no longer appear to rotate. Here's how:
Select the first keyframe and choose Modify Shape Add Shape Hint (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-H).
A small circle with an a inside will appear in the center of your shape. Drag it to the upper-left corner of the square.
Select the last keyframe, and you will see a corresponding a shape hint. Drag it to the upper-left arc of the circle.
Continue the process until you have four matching shape hints. (Often, just one or two hints are enough for Flash to catch on, but sometimes many are required.)
Note: There is a limit of 26 shape hints for each shape tween.

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I'm thoroughly discouraged with Flash CS3 for the trouble I'm
having with this simple shape tween. Please tell me it's my fault
so that I can get this to work and not think that Flash is dumb.
I'm going from a small circle with a 1 px stroke to a round
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Hello :-]
I'm using shape tweens to morph one shape into another:
http://megaswf.com/serve/81955/
While I enjoy some of the choices Flash makes for animating the transformations,
I am wondering if you can control it in any way, or even have flash generate a different transformation.
I would also love to know of any suggestions you might have for making animated videos with shapes more dynamic.
That demo shows about what I know, which amounts to:
applying shape tweens for morphing;
and motion tweens for 2d spinning,
and basic movement from point A to point B.
Bless you!

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As for animating there are a lot of tricks. One of the simplest is to use easing. Select one of your tweens and look in the properties panel. There you will see and easing number. Try some different values (negative and positive).
Other things that aren't just a technical fix are anticipation and overshooting. Matter of fact most of the things that make compelling animation have nothing to do with Flash or specific technologies. If you are interested in doing a lot of animating I would recommend any book by Chris Georgenes.

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However, when some of the objects are crossing each other in either the starting or ending keyframe, they don't morph smoothly but quite funnily. Funny phases are nested between the intended starting and ending tages.
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Greetings folks,
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