How Do You Slow Down/Vary Speed in Animation

[KateMorgan]

Hi,

I am using Flash CS4 and am working on a project where I am hand drawing an animation running across the screen.  I drew it in consecutive key frames.  Its too fast.  How can I slow it down or vary the speed?  I've tried adding blank frames between each drawing but its very time consuming.

This is all pretty new for me and I appreciate any help.

Thanks  Kate

[jp311]

Have you tried using the motion editor with tween animations?  It's much better and you have more control.

Jesse

[KateMorgan]

Motion tweening is great but I had already drawn all of my frames.  Each frame shows a small change in the movement... a girl running and her arms and legs move a bit in each frame.

If I start a new layer and start with my first image I can motion tween it to the next position but I would like to replace that image with the next one that has the next forward motion.  If I pull in the second image that I had made into symbol it replaces both images with the new one. 

Is there a way I can replace..for example..the second image with a new one without it replacing the first image also?

[MrOzzeh · Accepted solution]

Either lower the frame rate (fps) so that the playback is slower, or another option in frame by frame is to just space the frames out a little, so there is a new frame every other frame etc.

It just takes a lot of experimenting to see which looks best.

Also making use of motion tweening over hand-drawn motions would give you a lot more control in speed speed and change with a lot of the work load cut down.

[KateMorgan]

Thank you for your information. It works.