It seems like every time I sit down to work on flash something comes up. Today was a virus call from work, 4 hours of scans latter, new computer needed.

Anyway, on to the good stuff. Despite the hold up, I did in fact do some productive things today. However, I do have something to say. "Timeline Effects" does not exist in CS4. The tutorial linked is for FlashMX, are any of the classes using FlashMX? Flash wasn't even an Adobe product then!

So, useful information courtesy of my GoogleFu. In Flash CS4 "Timeline Effects" is now "Motion Presets." Some of them, like drop shadow aren't there anymore, but they've replaced it with some cool, and oh so very smooth movements. You can bring up the dialog box by clicking Winows -->Motion Presets. Click the layer you want to apply the effect to, then choose your effect from the dialog and click "Apply" Voila! It was a little tricky getting it to do exactly what I wanted, but overall, easier than trying to do it myself.

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I went ahead and did a new Motion Guide as well, considering its changed a little bit for CS4 as well. It wasn't too different from the tutorial, just a couple of new names here and there.

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