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InDesign: Creating Animations

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Overview

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Get a complete guide to using InDesign's powerful animation features. Watch and learn how to animate logos, ads, and even books in fixed layout EPUB format.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know before watching this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Getting Started
  • Previewing the possibilities
  • Supported format overview
  • Setting up an animation workspace
  • Built-in reference: The Animation Encyclopedia script
2. Working with the Animation Panel
  • Animation panel overview
  • Applying and previewing basic animation presets
  • Exploring the complex animation presets
  • Modifying animation presets
  • Adjusting animation preset duration and speed
  • Understanding from/to appearance
  • Working with rotation
  • Modifying scaling properties
  • Setting page load and page click start events
  • Setting on click self and on button click start events
  • Using Hide Until Animated/Hide After Animating
3. Working with Motion Paths
  • Modifying animation preset motion paths
  • Creating your own motion paths
  • Understanding motion path direction
  • Copying motion paths
4. Understanding Timing
  • Setting timing order and linking objects timing using the Timing panel
  • Using Timing panel delays
  • Looping and timing-linked objects
  • The Timing panel's best friend: The Layers panel
5. Creating Animation Effects
  • Applying animation to multiple objects on one page
  • Applying multiple animations to one object
  • Animating type: Old movie reel headline
  • Animating type: Typewriter effect
  • Animating type: Bounce back effect
  • Animating type: Motion blur
  • Animating type: Digital flip sign
  • Creating lines that draw
  • Drawing with objects
  • Filling jars and other containers
  • Moving the rotation center point
  • Animating infographics: Line graphs
  • Animating infographics: Bar charts
  • Animating infographics: Simple pie charts
  • Animating inforgraphics: Fancy pie charts
  • Creating a slideshow
  • Creating a moving bicycle
  • Building things that blink
  • Creating auto-scrolling text
  • Creating color transitions
6. Using Other Interactive Features with Animations
  • Using buttons to trigger animations
  • Including animations in Object States (MSOs)
  • Working with grouped animations in MSOs
  • Adding sound to animations
  • Animating video frames
7. Building Complex Animations
  • Animating logos: World news
  • Animating logos: Global systems
  • Animating logos: Transportation matters
  • Creating animated ads: Periodic elements
  • Creating animated ads: Financial ratios
  • Creating animated ads: Messaging
  • Building an animated movie title page
  • Animating an instructional page: Bicycle essentials
  • Building an animated cookbook page
  • Animating a textbook
8. Output Formats and Animation
  • Using animations in fixed-layout EPUBs
  • Using animations with Publish Online
9. Advanced Techniques
  • Creating and saving custom motion presets
  • Managing and sharing custom motion presets
  • Customizing animations via Snippets
  • Copying animations
Conclusion
  • Credits/acknowledgments
  • Next steps

Taught by

Diane Burns

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