Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Now that the animation is complete, the last step is to position the frames so that they play one after the other.
Click once on the first keyframe in the second layer.

Hold down the shift key, and select frame 44 in the last layer.

By doing this, you will have highlighted the lower three layers. Now click on the selection and drag it to the right until you reach frame 35, overlapping with the last tween segment. Careful, if you click and hold down too long without moving the mouse arrow, a contextual menu will pop up.

Be sure you are not placing the frame end-to-end, or moving them up or down. Remember, if you mess up, just press Ctrl-Z (Command-z for Mac) a few times to undo.

Compare your timeline with the image above. (We've deselected the frames to see them better). Make sure you have overlapped the tweened regions. This will create a crossfade, so as one image fades out, the next one begins to fade in.
Now repeat the following steps with the other layers, to cascade them out like stairs. You will highlight the two lower layers and drag them to the right, making sure to overlap the tweened regions.

By the time you have dragged all of the layers out, your timeline should be cascaded out as so.

To test your project, click Ctrl-Enter (PC) or Command-Return (Mac).
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