Adobe 65036570 User Guide - Page 46

ADOBE DIRECTOR 11.0 35 User Guide • To move or copy frames, select Edit > Cut Frames or Edit > Copy Frames. • To delete frames, select Edit > Clear Frames, or press the Delete key on your keyboard. If you cut, clear, or delete the selected frames, Director removes the frames and closes up the empty space. Note: To delete a single frame, select Insert > Remove Frame. 3 To paste frames that you have cut or copied, select any frame or sprite, and select Edit > Paste Sprites. If there aren't enough empty frames available for the entire sprite to be pasted, the Paste Options dialog box appears. Choose how to paste the sprites. Overwrite Existing Sprites copies the entire sprite over the frames of any existing sprites Truncate Sprites Being Pasted pastes the sprite into the number of available empty frames by shortening its frame span. Insert Blank Frames To Make Room inserts frames into the Score so the entire sprite can fit without being truncated or overwriting other sprites. 4 To add frames, select a frame in the Score. 5 Select Insert > Frames and enter the number of frames to insert. The new frames appear to the right of the selected frame. Sprites in the frames you select are extended (tweened). For more information about tweening, see Animation. About cast members Cast members are the media and other assets in your movie. They can be bitmaps, vector shapes, text, scripts, sounds, Adobe Flash content or components, DVD content, QuickTime® movies, Windows Media video or audio, Shockwave® Player 3D content, rich text, sounds of various formats, and more. When you place a cast member on the Stage or in the Score, you create a sprite. For more information about sprites, see Sprites. Use windows called Cast windows to group and organize your cast members. To populate casts, import and create cast members. You can create and use multiple casts in a movie, and you can group multiple Cast windows together in a tabbed panel layout. Cast window with tabs in Thumbnail view