
24 Chapter 3: Getting to Know the Workspace
To show or hide the effects channels:
• Click the Hide/Show Effects Channels button in the upper right corner of the Score to change
the display.
Setting the number of Sprite channels
Although the Score can include as many as 1000 Sprite channels, most movies use as few as
possible to improve performance in the authoring environment and during playback. Sprites in
higher channels appear on the Stage in front of sprites in lower channels. You use the Property
inspector’s Movie tab to control the number of channels in the Score for the current movie.
To set the number of Sprite channels:
1 Make sure that the Score is the active window.
2 In the Property inspector, select the Movie tab.
3 On the Movie tab, in the Channels text box, enter a number from 1 to 1000.
The numbered Sprite channels in the Score increase or decrease, according to the number in
the Channels text box.
Turning channels on and off
To hide the contents of any channel on the Stage, or to disable the contents if they are not visible
sprites, you use the button to the left of the channel. When you turn off an effects channel, the
channel’s data has no effect on the movie. You should turn off Score channels when testing
performance or working on complex overlapping animations.
To turn off a Score channel:
• Click the gray button to the left of the channel. A darkened button indicates that the
channel is off.
To turn multiple Score channels off and on:
1 Press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Macintosh).
2 Click a channel that is on to turn all of the other channels off, or click a channel that is off to
turn the other channels on.
Changing your view of the Score
To narrow or widen the Score, you change the zoom percentage. Zooming in widens each frame,
which lets you see more data in a frame. Zooming out shows more frames in less space and is
useful when moving large blocks of Score data.
Hide/Show Effects Channels button
This channel is on
This channel is off
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