Synfig/C2/Animate-a-Toy-train/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:01	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Animate a toy train” using Synfig.
00:06	In this tutorial we will learn to animate the toy train which we created earlier.
00:12	For this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 OS Synfig version 1.0.2
00:21	Let’s open our Train Synfig file.
00:25	Please open your Train Synfig file which you saved on your system.
00:29	Let us start with the animation.
00:31	Click on the drop down list of Engine group layer.
00:36	Right-click on the any of the Wheel group layer.
00:39	Select the Star layer.
00:41	Again right-click and click on New layer.
00:45	Then click on Transform and on Rotate.
00:50	Now the Rotate effect has been applied to the wheel.
00:54	Move the anchor point to the centre of the wheel.
00:58	In the Animation panel, click on Turn on animate editing mode icon.
01:05	Type 24 in the Current frame box.
01:09	Go to the Parameters panel.
01:11	Double-click on the value of Amount parameter and change the value to 360.
01:18	Observe that waypoints are created on the Time track panel.
01:23	Click and drag the Time cursor between the 2 waypoints and check the rotation of the wheel.
01:29	Save the file by pressing Ctrl + S.
01:33	Let us now create a time loop for this rotation effect.
01:37	Right-click on Rotate effect layer and click on New layer.
01:42	Then click on Other and on Time Loop.
01:48	In the Parameters panel, tick the checkbox of Only For Positive Duration.
01:55	Next, let us add the Rotate & Time Loop effects to all the wheels.
02:00	So, select both the effect layers using the Shift key.
02:05	And press Ctrl and C keys to copy the layers.
02:09	Now, right-click on the Wheel-1 group folder.
02:13	Press Ctrl and V keys to paste the layers.
02:17	Repeat the same process for all the wheels.
02:24	Now the rotation effect has been applied to all the wheels of the toy train.
02:29	Save the file once again by pressing Ctrl + S.
02:34	Let us now animate the train.
02:37	Select all the group layers except Rail.
02:41	Group them together and rename the group layer as Train.
02:47	Make sure that the Time cursor is in the zeroth frame.
02:52	Using Shift key, drag the train outside the canvas to the right.
02:57	Move the Time cursor to the 100th frame.
03:01	Using Shift key, drag the train to the left side outside the canvas.
03:07	Click on Turn off animate editing mode icon.
03:11	Save the file by pressing Ctrl + S.
03:15	Let us now render the animation.
03:18	For this, go to File and click on Render.
03:22	In the File name field, change the extension to avi and change the Target to ffmpeg.
03:31	Increase the quality to 9 and click on the Render button.
03:36	Now go to Desktop. Right click on the avi file and play using Firefox web browser.
03:43	We can now see the Toy train animation.
03:47	With this we have come to the end of this tutorial.
03:50	Let us summarize. In this tutorial we learnt to animate a Toy train.
03:56	Here is an assignment for you-Animate the bus created in an earlier assignment by following the steps shown in this tutorial.
04:06	Your completed assignment should look like this.
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