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Director MX Basics Tutorial 65
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In the Score window, click the end of the TitleText sprite in frame 28, and drag it to the left
to frame 10.
Note: You can also lengthen sprites by dragging their end frames to the right to higher-numbered frames, and
you can edit more than one sprite at the same time by selecting multiple sprite end frames.
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Click the Animation button sprite in channel 2 of the Score.
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Shift-click the SoundVideo sprite in channel 3.
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Click frame 10 in the frame number bar above channel 1. The playhead moves to frame 10.
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Select Modify > Extend Sprite.
The sprites shorten in length so they occupy only frames 1 through 10. You can use the Extend
Sprite command to either lengthen or shorten sprites.
Change the default length of sprites
You can change the default length of sprites that you drag to the Stage and Score by editing the
Sprite Preferences. You’ll now change the default sprite length to 10 frames, which makes it easier
to compose a movie consisting of a series of scenes 10 frames long.
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Select Edit > Preferences > Sprite to open the Sprite Preferences dialog box.
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In the Span Duration text box, type 10 and click OK.
Scene 1 of your movie is almost complete. Later, you will return to this scene to add Lingo
commands to the navigation buttons. Now you’ll start building scene 2.