Animate

HELP!  I am doing frame by frame animation that involves groups of characters overlapping.  It's really hard to see what I'm drawing when I'm drawing a character passing anther character.  When right clicking a layer there is an option to "Show Others Transparent."  This is very helpful.  BUT, I can't figure out a way to make the other layers go back to full opacity again.  It seems like the only way is to click on all the other layers individually and change them back to full opacity.  My animation has over 200 layers and it would take ten minutes to restore opacity. Why would they create an option to make all other layers transparent but provide no option to revert back?  What's the use?  Am I missing something?

Working on Windows 10. I downloaded the latest update for Animate 2021 and had to work on a project that was last opened in 2020. I tried to open Animate and it crashed. I tried opening the program a few more times in different ways and it still kept crashing. I have limited permissions, so I called my company's IT to help me download a previous version. We downloaded the earliest available 2020 version to see if it would make a difference. The program opens with no problem. But when I try to open one of my past files, it doesn't work. It acts like it will open but nothing appears and all the panels are greyed out.  I'm able to create a new file with no issues, I'm simply not able to open existing files. Does anyone have any idea what I could do to solve this, or what could be causing it?

I am a newbie and have just worked with an old Photoshop. Now I would like to draw and animate a little. I would prefer a PC since I have no experience of Apple. Is a strong laptop as the one above a good choice? Do you use a Wacom with it or are there alternatives where you paint directly on the screen?And are Fresco and Animate good choices to begin with?Thank you for helping out!Viveca

Hi all,  I was adding a drop shadow to a folder of layers that contained armatures but sometimes it wouldn't apply it to all the layers, just one keyframe, and othertimes it did. Anyways it was too inconsistent for 100 scenes I am working with so I decided instead to add drop shadows to individual symbols inside each character armature (example, each of the characters' head symbols). Shows up completely fine in the workspace.  When I go to test scene, all the symbols I've added the drop shadow filter to (in this case all the heads) have disappeared. I tried it in multiple scenes with five different armatures. Why is this happening? Thank you for your time!Mitch

What is the purpose of this feature? I created titles for a video to overlay footage... so I tried this, which was a process in baffling fultility. 1: Why does Animate hide the exported Quicktime MOV file, which does have the proper alpha I want?2: Media Encoder proceeds to mangle the footage by ignoring the alpha to produce unusable footage, why?  How is this useful in any way?  When I drop the hidden, secret Quicktime MOV onto my compositor, viola! It is perfect! When I try to move that hidden, secret QT file to my working directory, it suddenly becomes truncated footage for some confounding reason... and yes, unusable.  So, what gives? Why can't this software do a simple thing like, export video with the promised Alpha Channel? Why not just simply work? Why all the chasing through these rabbit holes only to have footage that is unusable? Is this a prank feature, or what?  Enquiring minds would like to know, thanks. 

I just thought I would get advice for how best to setup a project before I get too deep in it (given my relative lack of experience with Animate).There will be six sets of eight buttons on the stage, like these:I plan to make them button symbols because I want a little button behavior for each. Clicking one of them causes a unique "card" to open. So there are 48 of these. Clicking the card causes it to disappear.What's the easiest way to set this up? Each card on it's own layer and then create some behavior to animate them on their own timline? Or each card on one layer, and then using labels, mark each one's animation from small to large as it appears?  I basically understand how to get the functions I want, but I think there is probably an easy way and a hard way to do this. Hoping for some direction to the easy way. Thanks.   

I have created a short animation in Adobe Animate CC for the first time and got it exported as HTML/JS to include in a website however the animation keeps repeating. I want the animation to stop once it has finished.Can anyone help with it? Thanks

Hi,I am new in adobe family and want to grip professionaly as much as I can. Will any body pls share the best learning resouses with me? Thanks in advance.  kr

Hi all,I have created an animation of a logo fading in layer at a time using motion tween over a couple of seconds. I want to reuse this in another file but at a different scale and position. When I paste the layers into the new file and try to move or scale it, Animate creates a keyframe at that position only and the rest of the keyframes remain in the position they are first pasted in at. Does anyone know how to transform all the motion tween keyframes proportionally for the entire sequence?Thanks.

Hello, I have an issue with exporting a display banner. The file is set to 160 pixels wide but keeps exporting as 159 pixels. I could fix this in the code but it has a border that gets chopped. Side request, any examples of adding a border in html code for these banner files, am not sure where it goes, my attempts so far have failed. I know it's simple but I'm coding illiterate. Code:<!DOCTYPE html><!--NOTES:1. All tokens are represented by '$' sign in the template.2. You can write your code only wherever mentioned.3. All occurrences of existing tokens will be replaced by their appropriate values.4. Blank lines will be removed automatically.5. Remove unnecessary comments before creating your template.--><html><head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="authoring-tool" content="Adobe_Animate_CC"><title>160x600-WM-FA</title><!-- write your code here --><script src="https://code.createjs.com/1.0.0/createjs.min.js"></scri

היי חייבת עזרה התקנתי את התוכנה אך משהו לא תקין בהגדרות למשל רוצה לצייר ריבוע לא מופיע כלום שאני מקטינה את הדף מופיעה שהאחוזים יורדים אך לא משנה בפועל את התצוגה מה עושים?לא יכולה לעבוד ככה מישהו יכול לעזור?תודה מראש

I'm trying to get better at my puppet. I've watched a few of viceos, but it seems I'm missing something.  My hands aren't moving along with my arms. My left hand was, but it was more of a smear. The right arm wasn't moving at all. 

I am using html5 Canvas output and createJS.This is the XML i am trying to read<Tour><Day Seq="1"><man1>name1</man1><man2>name2</man2><man3>name3</man3></Day><Day Seq="2"><man1>name1</man1><man2>name2</man2></Day><Day Seq="3"><man1>name1</man1><man2>name2</man2><man3>name3</man3><man4>name4</man4></Day><Tour> My code is : var reqCurrent = new XMLHttpRequest();reqCurrent.open("GET", "xxx.xml", true);reqCurrent.addEventListener("load", fLoader);reqCurrent.send();function fLoader(e) {parserM = new DOMParser();xmlDocM = parserM.parseFromString(e.target.response, "text/xml");} I can read, i mean the code is ok.Now my problem is to read this file even if number of day will increase with a random number of man.can someone help me? Thanks in advance.

Hello, Forgive me if this is a dumb question. So I just started to use Animate, and followed a turorial right here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9lxYi-EU0gI was trying to make a carousel with next and previous buttons. And I created from code snippet an action script like this.this.prevBtn.addEventListener("click", fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame.bind(this)); function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame() { this.gotoAndStop(1); }This is almost the default code snippet, except for that I changed the frame number to fit in my number of frames. However, I keep getting this error: 1061: "Call to a possibly undefined method bind." and I don't know where to start debugging. I would appreciate any suggestions. Please help.

Hi all, I am working on an animation where I have 100 scenes. Now I want to add a drop shadow filter to an Armature layer. I ideally want that filter to span across all relevant scenes with that Armature layer instead of manually doing it, like would happen with a movie clip. Is there any hope for me here or do I have to go back and do this all manually? Thank you for your time!Mitch 

I'm attempting animate CC and is there a way to get Animate to resemble the flash layout, I previously used flash for gogoanime and I've gotten used to the flash look, if there is any way to do this, please tell me.

I have just downloaded Animate today and have tested around in it and made a 2-second animation. I want to export it as a MP4 file so I used the quick share button and published it as a video, but it gets stuck at 60% (Generating video in Adobe Media Converter). It works perfectly fine when making a GIF. It has one layer. I have messed around with it and followed stuff on the web but nothing has helped. I use Windows 10. 

Years and years ago I bought Adobe Flash CS 5.5. I cannot afford the new CC. I lost the serial number because it was in an email that has since gone defunct and I cannot access it anymore.I still have the installer. Can I somehow extract the serial number from the already-installed Flash in my old computer? Like, it's not like I'm trying to crack the software. I have it already. I just need to reinstall it on a new computer. 

It seems as if when the application is uploaded to a server the application gets out of focus event when clicking. I have tried a standalone version and it works. The problem I'm running into is keyboard events not being registered when involing iframe. Any ideas?

We are a school and had a student open Animate where the app crashed and seems to have created an encryption situation on a file server (that has his home directory on it).  He then moved to a second computer and had the same issue.  Does Automate automatically encrypt working files?  Has anyone seen anything like this?  Sophos saw it as malitious ransomware.  Any ideas? 

I am an absolute noob when it comes to Animate or anything coding.I'm a graphic designer, videographer, and visual effects animator with plenty of experience in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects (ok, AE expressions are technically coding, but I'm a basic expressions user).I'm currectly using Photoshop to design animated GIF display ads for the ad agency I work for. GIFs are obviously very limited in their functionality and their file size optimization, and we'd like to explore HTML for its versatility and optimization benefits. Because I have zero experience with coding, I'm approaching this solely from a designer/animator headspace.And from that perspective... Animate SUCKS. At least as far as I can tell. And the training materials out there are either all about that coding life or are geared toward things like character animation, UI, etc.I need someone who has a similar background to guide me and teach me. I need to overcome the learning curve fast. Please? Any kin

Hi, I created my firste simple html banner and it works fine here on my Mac, but if I send it to another pc it only shows a white window and in some cases a broken-file-icon.How do I make it visible for others?

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Hey, in the newest bug i've found this week, my classic brush is no longer allowing me to only paint selected areas. I'm attatching a pic, and I have to ask, how do mainstream shows like mlp and rick and morty use adobe with a new bug every other day? do they have on sight tech support soley dedicated to making animate run?  Whats going on here?