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Hello!today I began work on an animation only to have Animate CC crash on me. I reopened the app and the animation was recovered, so I continued work for some hours, making sure to save (with Command S) but once again the application crashed. This time when I reopened Animate, I was given no option to recover the file, and it seems like it was completely erased as there was nothing in "Open Recent Item" nor a RECOVER_Untiled.fla anywhere I could find on my computer. Is it perhaps tucked away in some obscure folder within the Animate CC app folder itself? Or has the file been eviscerated? It baffles me becuase I was able to save without any issue, so I feel like the information should still be located on the computer perhaps in a cache or temporary items folder. Any and all help would be appreciated.Thanks for your time, have a good day! !

I am a high school animation student and im new to adobe animate, the application was working just fine but I selected a new frame to adjust an object and whenever I move the object it glitches and the adjustment shows up on the previous frame. Is there a setting I accidently turned on? I even made a new seperate layer but this issues still occurs.

I've been trying to make a rig and things were going well, but when I parented this symbol to another layer like I've been doing, for some reason this time whenever I rotate the part the scale will also change, making it look off. Is there a fix for this? thanks! 

Greetings.I have made a tween based on the warp tool and it functionned perfectly at the beginning. I am using an image which is not converted into any kind of symbol nor anything else. Just using the image plane and simple as is. I discovered that there was a strange bug which occured when I made the problem layer look as outlines and all other layers invisible. So I got rid of that unwanted shape thing of the layer. Now the next problem is when I try tweening it again, The shape actually tweens, but it stretches in an weird way. I also noticed when I am on the problem image selected with the free transform tool, I see the Cross which normally is on the dot (anker point of the image) which is outside the image... Anyone knows if its possible to pull it back on the anker point? If thats an issue.

I saw a post from 2018, I've created a mask and attached it to one of the images with a code snippet from the post, but unsure how to animate and preview/test based on mouse/touch position. I would like to create an HTML5 ad (800x250) where the viewer can slide between before and after pictures as they please. I'm not familiar with coding, but hoping there may be a simpler way to achieve this since 2018.The images are nestled on the right side of the document, if that matters.

I had a simple CEP extension for Animate CC 2022, which simply a html page that loaded another page from my dropbox in an iframe (an interface for running my jsfl scripts). Using an M1 Mac SiliconSince updating to Animate 2024, the panel appears blank.it does appear Window/Extensions, but even changing the index html to do nothing but trigger a test alert, doesn't load anything.I have tried running Animate in Rosetta, and tried installing these test panels, which show in the menu, but they also don't loadhttps://github.com/Adobe-CEP/CEP-Resources/tree/master/CEP_12.x/Samples Alternatively, the new UXP developer tools don't give me an option to select Animate as a Host Application, only Photoshop/XD and Indesign, so not sure what to try next.

When I try to open a symbol, it opens a different one. While sometimes I can open the symbol that I want, other times, it won't and will close the symbol bar. This animation worked fine with no issue for the past few months until recently and it wasn't an update that is doing this. And symbols I can get to won't work as they should and just be frozen in place.

Hi Animate Community Sorry for this probably very simple problem, but it's really got me stumped.The tweens work perfectly in Animate but I can't export the files or test the files in a browser because of the warning sign says..."Classic tweening will not occur on layer with ungrouped shapes or on layer with more than one group or symbol."It's usually a simple fix, I just makesure there are not more than one object, object ungrouped or multiple symbols on the offending layer.But I've locked all other layer and explored everywhere and can't find any multiple object, ungrouped object or symbols.All I can think is maybe I have some hidden object locked away?I'm sure it's something simple I just can't figure it out, I have made some video's but I'm not allowed to post them on here for some reason. yours sincerelyMike  

Hey I was trying to upload a request to bring back the spraybrush tool for adobe animate and one of the prerequiset questions was my build. The sub-txt listed (for windows) help>about animate, which I tried to enter into the command prompt, then into the search bar in file explorer to no avail.  Can someone guide my apparently computer illiterate self to finding my adobe build?

Hi All,This is killing me as it has been working right up until the last few weeks. I have been into the advanced settings and make sure they are set to show 2 previous frames and 2 future frames (although I do not need future frames for my tasks) I am simply drawing on top of a copy of previous frame after inserting it as a keyframe (so the normal way). So clearly what I would like to see is the previous fram so that I can change the mouth slightly etc and still make sure it all lines up. The issue is wierd because it works the other way just fine; I can see the frames that are coming.(I have toggled the "show keyframe only button..." makes no difference) Check out my settings in onion skin below (they are basically the default settings).I have been copying previous frames in front just to draw and then deleting them because I can't see the previous frame) (what a hassle)Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm really annoyed about how Flash 8 specifically uses sound on the timeline. I don't remember how sound works on the newest version of Adobe animate since I haven't used it in a while but in Flash 8 if you play a sound then it will play until it's done even if you pause the animation. Is there any way to change this so sound stops when you pause the animation?

I recently got a new laptop, and wanted to make sure my settings were imported from my old one on Animate. Exported settings file, imported it onto the new computer, and then none of the keybinds worked. So maybe it's because I had to reset all my settings, but I used to be able to click on a single frame to modify, or delete it if I wanted. Not only can I no longer do this, but I also used to be able to click on an empty frame past the established ones already and have it insert frames for me up to that point. If anyone has any information for me, please help. I haven't been able to find it online yet. (In case your wondering, span selection is not on).\Clicking on the middle frame to delete it, and create a new keyframe.After deleting the middle frame, all other frames in the group get deleted as well.

Hi,my mouse cursor is super tiny on stage. Its normal sized everywhere else (panels, timeline, menu bar). My screen is 3840 x 2160 px and set to 200%. 300% is recommended from windows.When I set it to 100% EVERYTHING is tiny inlcuding the cursor and I can't read anything. When its set to 300% the cursor is still tiny on stage, changing the scale doesnt affect the cursor on stage at all.The cursor makes working really hard, since working with vector points requires you to see cursors changes... its super annoying and my eyes hurt after working too long in the programm.Any fixes or work arounds?

Hello, I'm having trouble maintaining locked dimensions on graphics after I close, and then reopen an Animate file, or when copy/pasting to another frame. -Using vector graphics only.-All snapping is turned off.-Only using increments of 0.05 -frequently, the same graphic will change dimensions when placed in different locations-I am looking for precision dimensions For example, I have a vector graphic set to: 21.00 px wide x 70.00 px highWhen I close the file and reopen it or copy/paste the vector graphic changes to:21 x 69.9521 x 70.0520.95 x 69.9520.95 x 70 or any variation of these. The width and/or height on some of the very same vector graphics will maintain dimensions and others will shift by 0.05 increments.  I can manually force/input the dimensions I want but they may not stay. For example: I input 21 x 70 and it changes to 21 x 69.95. The new dimension will not hold. I get very inconsistent results. Also, when copy/pasting a group

Hi I load my project and find copletly ruind parenting on my character. It is pretty weird. Here you can find the video file i exported yesterday (https://we.tl/t-qXorvaLnUQ) an here you can find fla. (https://we.tl/t-pi4q6WijwW) file. Is it posible to save it or atl least to avoid it for the future. THX!

Hi there, I'm in the process of developing some Animate addons. My current workflow is creating a panel within an FLA, with each button calling an actionscript function which in turn calls a JSFL function.  To be perfectly honest, due to the lack of debugging support it's painful and so slow. I'd like to switch to a more professional environment, so what's the recommended way to develop addons like you'd see on Adobe Exchange? I'm assuming C++? Any help would be appreciated!Thanks!

So basically when i play my animation in the timeline (by pressing enter obviously) movie clips are stuck on the 1st frame, only when i export it as a SWF movie and view it does the movie clip play. But ive seen animators like Sacri and GagOfGreen somehow have the ability to scrub movie clips through the timeline pls help pls pls pls!!!

Here is a video tutorial series on how to use ZIM within Adobe Animate:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEgqNBJRYJQ&list=PLCIzupgRt1pZnv-n6iYaucIjLpLYOue36ZIM is a JavaScript Canvas Framework built with CreateJS which is what Animate exports to in Web mode.  ZIM SHIM at https://zimjs.com/animate will let you code with ZIM right in Animate.  ZIM provides many conveniences, components and controls that you can use in your app! To find out available features see https://zimjs.com/about.html or explore the ZIM site in general https://zimjs.com to see expamples, the learn section, etc.  Let us know if you have any questions - we hope ZIM is helpful for you!  Cheers.Dr Abstract (Dan Zen) long-time Flash/Animate user

I've been using Adobe Animate for a couple of weeks now, and ever since at random times it just crashes and shuts down. The problem occurs at random but mostly whenever I use free transform or change colors in objects.Allthough I'm not quite sure if that's the issue that's causing it because it also happened when I put text on my stage... I've already send a report to Adobe multiple times when the problem occured and the window popped up to "restore" my project. I've tried everything from deleting, uninstalling, deleting preferences, restart computer... I run on a Macbook Pro I7 16GB ram, which is sufficient for some basic stickfigure animations so I guess that's not the problem. I also have all the other Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, After effects... All work perfectly fine.  But the ony one I actually need "Adobe Animate" just doesn't work properly. This is really frustrating... Can anyone share some insights, advice or possi

 the windows of my project wont snap to the borders. I've tried clicking the window tab to remove and bring them back but they remain unsnapped as well as restarting the program. tried placing them on every border but it doesnt work, help appreciated.

Hi! I Have to request your help to find creative cloud extension for encrypting swf file while exporting swf file from animate. so, this swf file can't be edited or decompiled from unauthorised person

My creative cloud window above:My overall goal is to download the app adobe animate. It is already paided for and I had already hit install for the app. But I hit cancel download as my computer had to many things running and I just wanted to start the download again (it was only at 10% downloaded, and it had just worked so I wasn't worried). The screen has then just looked like this for about 4-5 hours now. I have tried quitting out of creative cloud entirely but nothing changes whatsoever, and always looks the same. (I am on a Macbook Air with the Sonoma 14.4 macOS). Thank you for any help or adivice you can give!

I was recently put in charge of helping build an interactive Christmas card for the company I work for. This is a pretty large company of animations, with many developers as well, so obviously this was seen to be a pretty easy project to start and complete.   Anyways, as per usual I got started on creating the interactive portion of this project while one of our animators worked on creating the animation(s) for the card. It was a fairly long animation, around 40 seconds in length with all the interactive portions being done on a paused frame at the start of the timeline.   Time comes, project is exported, debugging completed (or so I thought). Test had been done at the time using different browsers, and mobile emulation tested with Chromes responsive layout option in their devtools. Eventually we decide the project looks good, works well with good frame rates so we decide to deploy the card to our public website. I then go to test it on my phone. That is where the issue came

On Adobe Animate, how would I add white outlines to symbols like this? If someone could assist it'd be greatly appreciated

I am working with a wav file in Animate and am trying to export the video into a mp4 through Media Encoder. The audio never plays. All I hear is nothing. I tried every type of setting I could think of any nothing works. I tried just using audio from where it came from: a mp4 file I was referencing, but of course Animate just cannot export audio from mp4s when put into the Timeline. I tried using the audio from an FLV version of the mp4, but I need to render out the video from a frame other than Frame 1, and for some reason you cannot just edit a FLV in the Timeline?? Why can't I render out audio from Animate in an mp4?