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Add Interaction with Snap! Empower Flash Animations, Effects and Transitions

Add Flash Animations, Effects and Transitions to Snap! Empower

Blow your audience away with your next Snap! EmpowerTM Flash interactions builder presentation. With Snap! Empower, rapid e-Learning developers can create quality course content in a snap by easily dressing up presentations with animations, effects and transitions. Say good-bye to boring, and hello to eye-catching, interactive presentations.

Build high-quality and impressive presentations quickly with Snap! Empower. One fantastic way to add a healthy dose of interactivity to your next presentation is to take advantage of all of the incredibly easy-to-use animations, effects and transitions loaded into Snap! Empower software. In a few simple steps, you can take your content to new levels. Here’s how:

Add Animations to Page Elements

  1. To create page elements that animate onto the screen, first select one or more elements on the Page Editor
  2. Go to the Properties tab to set timing controls for your animation. Select the Time In tab, and enter in the time that you’d like your animation to appear
  3. Pick the perfect effect and set the duration period and direction, if necessary
  4. To have page elements that animate off of the screen, just go to the Time Off tab in the Properties and set the desired exit time
  5. After setting the exit time, you’ll be able to choose effects and adjust animation options
  6. Preview your new animation by selecting the Pages button in the toolbar

 

Add Animated Transitions to Projects with Multiple Pages

  1. Select the desired page in the Project map, then open the Properties tab
  2. In the Properties tab, check the option to “Auto Advance” the page and set the time duration. Then, apply your desired transitions from the Transition from this Page drop down menu in Properties
  3. To preview, select the page and the page that follows and hit the Pages button in the toolbar to see your work in action

 

Add Animated Motions to Pages and Page Elements

  1. Use existing Flash animations by navigating to the Flash SWF section of the Library and drag the desired file onto the page
  2. Or, use the animation motion XML Component to add advanced effects
  3. Select the desired page element that you want the motion path applied to, and then choose from a list of pre-set paths in the Components tab
  4. Drag the selected path into the page and size it appropriately. To preview the animated motions, click on the Pages button in the toolbar

 

Check out the short and sweet video below for more in-depth and detailed instructions:

 

 

Adding animations and transitions is just one easy way that you can liven up your content and add customization to Flash templates. To take advantage of all of the amazing capabilities of Snap! Empower, view the handy tutorials for Flash videos here to learn how you can leverage the power of Snap! Empower.

Download your free 30-day trial of Snap! Empower Flash software and Snap! by Lectora® rapid e-Learning software today to discover how easily developers can transform no-nonsense PowerPoint presentations into spectacular Flash masterpieces.

 

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Stephanie Johnson is the Marketing Assistant at Trivantis Corporation. She is a graduate of Michigan State University, with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communication and History.