Hello. I'll get right to my confusion. I've been attempting to make a fairly simple short frame-by-frame animation, with a growing tree as the primary focus. At the end of the tree's growth I wanted to create leaves that start as little buds then unfold into fully grown leaves. So I made one leaf and converted it to a symbol. Within the symbol's timeline (I called this symbol "Growing Leaf") I did a frame by frame animation of the leaf starting as a bud and then unfolding into it's full size. Easy peasy. Then I went back to my stage, where the tree was grown on it's own layer. I made a new layer called "Leaves", and here's where the problem happened. I tried to click and drag my symbol over to where I wanted my first leaf to go, that worked. I hit play, then, nothing. The instance's animation just doesn't follow through. It stays on the first frame (the leaf bud). I then tried to copy-paste the symbol's frame by frame animation into my "Leaves" timeline. That worked, and the animation now follows through, but when I tried to move the animation, it moves only the individual frames. So in summary, I am frazzled because it seems that to re-use my animated Growing Leaf symbol, I need to make a new layer for each individual leaf, give each layer a timeline, copy-paste the symbol's frame-by-frame animation, and then move by hand each frame of that animation into place, because I can't click and drag the whole thing into place. Doesn't this entirely defeat the purpose of using a symbol? I thought that I could create an animated symbol, and then just drag and drop it to wherever I want on my stage at whatever point I want on the timeline, and it would just work. Am I missing something here? Thank you all. ... View more