The Timeline

1.The Timeline allows you to create and edit animations – to move forwards and backwards in time.

2.The units of measurement along the top of the ruler are in frames.

3.The length of your movie is controlled by how many keyframes and frames you have created in the Timeline. In this example there is only one keyframe. This means that this movie doesn’t have any time to move – it is actually a still image.

4.In this example there are 25 frames and the frame rate is set at 25 frames per second, so there is one second of animation. For more information about keyframes see Chapter 6. There is more about frame rate in Chapter 8.