Zooming in

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this is mainly for freddythunder because i saw this on his flash intro but if anybody else knows how to do this then please tell me. when i am making my intro, i want at some later part in the movie to be zoomed in. how do i do this? freddythunder’s site

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zooming in? on what? the only proper zoom i saw in his was on the text (but nice site freddy :)) what ever the size of the thing is all you need to do (I think) would be convert your text/image into a Symbol (Movie Clip) an creat 3 keyframes (on frames 1, 10, 20 et. depending on speed of zoom) on each keyframe select the image on screen click Window>Transform and then make sure constrained (unless you want it to warp the image) and change the number in the box (100%) to say 125, 150 etc. at each keyframe, I think this should give you a very primitive zoom. I could quite well be wrong and if I am someone please correct me… but it’s worth a try

good luck

–jc–

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or script a change in the clips ._x(scale) on the event of choice with an easing equation

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Hi!! Wow - This is the second time today someone’s asked about that intro - cool!!

JCDesigns - the zoom flashback’s talking about is the mountain and the airplane that you kinda zoom by when the sun sets. I think anyway.

There are two ways you can do this. I actually tried a tween before, but I couldn’t get the timing down with the sunset because it’s scripted.

Okay, so the first way (easy way) is what JCDesign said - make it a tween with the small image on the first keyframe, then on the other keyframe, resize it and move it to where you want.

As RelandR stated, I used actionscript to move and zoom in. However, this is not for the ‘freddythunder’ on the main page; it’s for the mountain thing - I think that’s what you mean, right?


onClipEvent (load) {
	speed = 2;  //speed of the zoom
	ot = getTimer()+40000; //timer before it zooms
//you can remove the timer, it's not necessary
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (getTimer()>ot) {
//checks to see if the timer has completed
		_xscale = _yscale += speed;
//does the zoom
		_x -= 1;
		_y += 2.5;
//this moves the movieClip down and to the left so it leaves
//the screen entirely
	}
}

I hope that answered your question. :wink:

[edit]Oh yeah, and thank you JCD![/edit]