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Animate a blend

Corel R.A.V.E.TM lets you animate blends to produce animated objects that transform their shape. In this procedure, you'll create a moving blend — you'll make the star change into a square as it moves across the stage. First, you'll delete all keyframes from the star's timeline and decrease the star's life span to make it display in one frame. Next, you'll draw a square and blend it with the star. Last, you'll animate the blend.

Delete keyframes and change an object's life span

  1. In the Timeline Docker window, click the keyframe at frame 10, and then click the Delete keyframe button Lets you delete keyframes from an object's timeline to delete the keyframe.
  2. Repeat the previous step to delete the keyframe at frame 5 in the star's timeline.
  3. Drag the black dot at frame 5 to frame 1 to decrease the life span of the star to one frame.

Create a moving blend

  1. Using the Pick tool Lets you select, move, and resize objects, drag the star to the top-left corner of the stage.
  2. Hold down CTRL and, using the Rectangle tool Lets you draw rectangles, drag to draw a square in the bottom-right corner of the stage.
  3. On the color palette, click the yellow color swatch to fill the square with yellow.
  4. Double-click the Pick tool Lets you select, move, and resize objects to select all the objects on the stage.
  5. Open the Interactive tools flyout Gives you access to tools that let you apply effects to objects interactively, and click the Interactive blend Lets you blend objects tool.
  6. From the Preset list box on the property bar, choose Straight 20 step.
  7. Click Movie menu Create sequence from blend.
    Note that in the Timeline Docker window, Corel R.A.V.E. automatically creates a timeline with two keyframes for the new animated blend.
  8. Play the movie to preview the effect.
    Click here to see what the effect should look like.
  9. Click the Stop button Lets you stop playing a movie.

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