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Working with Movies | Working with Actors | Working with Sprite Tracks | Working with Actor Sequences
Enhance your Electrifier Pro movies using actor sequences with over 140 TV-style transitions. Actors placed in a sequence will play in sequential order, and can use the Transition effect to create sophisticated dissolves and wipes as one actor replaces another.
In this section you will learn the basics of working with actor sequences including importing actors, creating, reordering, and resizing actor sequences, adding and deleting actors from a sequence, and applying transitions between actors.
With Electrifier Pro, you can create a sequence of actors that play one after another. All actors in an actor sequence will be drawn with the visual properties (position, dimensions, rotation, and so on) of the sequence, so actors which are dependent on a specific ink (such as Photoshop files) may not display correctly in a sequence with a different ink.
Any actor which you are planning to draw with transitions should be placed in an actor sequence.
If your graphics are all either larger or smaller than your actor sequence, you may want to resize it so the actors in the sequence will not be scaled unnecessarily. You can resize the actor sequence by choosing the Dimensions command from the Content menu.
If the actors would play back more efficiently in a different order, you can change the order of scenes by using the layering commands from the Arrange menu.
You can delete an unwanted actor from a sequence by using the Clear command.
Electrifier Pro includes 140 TV-style transitions that can be inserted between actors to blend the end of one step in a sequence with beginning of another. For example, you might want to fade from one actor to the next, rather than abruptly ending one and beginning another. Transitions add pizzazz to your movie without increasing file size, since all transitions included with Electrifier Pro are under 1K.
For a detailed description of the TV-style transitions that are available see the Transition options section of the Authoring Reference.
Working with Movies | Working with Actors | Working with Sprite Tracks | Working with Actor Sequences
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