Open a new movie. Click on the size button on the properties panel to open the Size dialog box:
Change the size to 200 px X 200 px, change the background color to black, and give your document a name as shown below:
Create a shape of any kind in Frame ONE of Layer 1. Give it a color other than black with no stroke. The fill and stroke options are located on the properties panel once you have selected the shape you want to use:
I created a star by clicking the Polygon Star tool on the tools panel:
Before you draw out the PolyStar you will need to set the option. On the properties panel click the options button:
At the PolyStar Tool Settings dialog box select star for style and play around with star point size. The default is .50. I used the settings shown below:
Highlight The shape in Frame 1 by selecting the black arrow key and then clicking on the shape.
Now you want to make sure that the shape is aligned to the center of the stage. To select the shape select On the Align option box make sure To stage is selected and the Align center vertically and Align center horizontally is selected as shown below:
When you create a motion tween your shape need to be grouped. Click on your shape with your selection tool (black arrow) then click Modify>Group. You should then see a blue box around your image indicating that it is now grouped:
Right click on Frame 60 and select INSERT KEYFRAME. This copies the shape across all the frames to frame 60.
Click back in Frame 1. On the properties panel select motion for the tweening option:
On the Properties Panel on the box labeled ROTATE, select CW for clockwise or CCW for counterclockwise. On the Frame Panel type in the number 1 for times to make your object revolve once, 2 for twice, etc:
Hints: Motion tweening only works on grouped objects or symbols. To make these objects work, Select the objects, select the menu MODIFY and then GROUP until there are no parts and pieces separate from the one group.
