Text animation – Fade in and fade out

Start a new empty movie. Click on size-button.

Set Dimensions to 450 px (width) x 80 px (height). Set Background Color to your own color.

Step by step

Select the text tool.

Place a sufficiently large enough word in the middle of the canvas.    (Arial ptn 42: Tim's Spider Awards) Give the text an orange color. Afterwards it’s still possible to change the text data in the properties     panel.

Now let’s convert it into a graphic object by means of Modify > Convert to     Symbol > give name > graphic.

Right click on frame #20 and insert a keyframe on frame #20,     do the same for frame #40.

Select keyframe #20 Select the object and choose color in the properties panel.

Set the color to Alpha (this is the transparency value), When we now click on     0% our text will no longer be visible. Right click and add Create Motion Tween on frame #1, #20 and frame #40.

Test your animation by using Control > Test Movie.

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