Morphing

Now you will create your first morphing animation.

Open Flash MX and create a new file. Set up stage size to 200X100px
You will need only one layer. Name it appropriately, for example “lrMorph”.
Extend your timeline up to 50 frames.
Draw the rectangle with rounded corners.
Insert a keyframe at the last frame of your timeline. It’s done to make sure that at the end of the animation you will return to the initial stage.
Insert one more keyframe in the middle of the timeline. Make sure that this middle keyframe is highlighted.
Using arrow tool bend slightly one or several sides of the rectangle in middle keyframe. You also may change a colour of the shape in the middle keyframe. If you test the movie you will see the shape “jumping” at the middle of animation.
Now – the most important step. Highlight the frame in between first and middle keyframes. Property inspector will open Frames properties set.
Select Shape from the Tween combobox. You will see arrow appeared between first and middle frames. The space between frames will be colored into light green – it means that morphing is successful.

Do the same for the second interval (between middle and last frames). Test your movie. It may look approximately like that.