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Inserting and Playing Media

Animated Gifs: Fireworks

1. Create and save images to use as the frames of your animation. Save them each separately. It's a good idea to number them sequentially. These will typically be static gif images.

2. Open the first in Fireworks.

3. Select from the main menu: Insert/Frame


4. Open the second picture.

5. Select it with the arrow tool and choose Edit/Copy.
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6. Move to the first images window. Pull down in the Layers Panel to Frame 2.


7. Click on the page and Select Edit/Paste.


8. Do steps 2-7 for all the rest of frames.

9. Select Animated Gif in the Optimized Panel.


10. Select File/Export Preview. Press Play to test the animation.


11. Double check settings to the left (they should say animated gif)

12. Hit export.


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