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So I was drawing a few lines (fluid brush) in adobe animate in a big file. I realized my lines were really wonky and were all jagged. When I used the free transform tool and pressed the up and down button to move my object, it was wonky and moved in the opposite direction. I restarted my computer multiple times, but it didn't help. This time I opened up a fresh document. I used the free transform tool and the fluid brush. The lines worked, and the free transform tool worked. Now, I went to my big document and tested it out. The brush was still wonky and the free transform tool worked. How do I fix this?

I have recently purchased a new MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.15. Having freshly installed Creative Cloud on this Mac, and because of the increased security in Catalina, I am often asked to allow access to certain folders as applications try to access them for the first time. Today, I ran Animate for the first time to do a simple task - export an existing file as a mp4 movie. Animate had not previously been granted access to any folders as this was the first time I'd opened on this Mac since install. The result of my export attempt was for Animate to entirely delete the contents of my Desktop folder with no warning, and all while it supposedly had no access to that folder!  Steps to reproduce the issue are below (warning - make sure you have a backup of your files) and I've attached a video of it happening. This is 100% reproducible on my machine.  Steps to reproduce bug:1. On Mac OS 10.15, open System Preferences -> Security and Privacy -> Privacy -

I am exporting video - to an mov file and I get this error message - I've tried exporting to desktop, shortest file name ever and still get this error and tested with colleague and she gets the same error. Other fla files don't seem to do this. Problem started in Animate 2020 - which was making files disappear! off my SSD. I then reverted back to Animate 2019 which has been better up until exporting video. I am not creating  SWF movie even so I don't even know why the error message is saying this. Can you help

Hello,I am experiencing a very difficult bug with Adobe Animate 2021 Build 37179 and macOS Big Sur (11.0.1). I cannot use my Style or Width Dropdowns because they aren't displaying properly. I have recorded a screencast of what I'm seeing: Has anyone else experienced this and are there any fixes? Thank you!

Hi everyone, I am new to Animate so please pardon my beginner questions - I am a web developer so I mostly work with Javascript, but I was asked to convert an old flash animation to HTML5 Canvas. I’m having some difficulty getting the animation to work - unfortunately, I can’t share the project file because it’s proprietary / client work. From what I understand, the original flash animation was created with AS2, which was auto converted in Animate to AS3. If I publish a .swf file, the animation seems to work fine. Since the initial conversion to HTML5 Canvas in Adobe Animate, I can verify that the animation plays in the timeline (except for the movieclips, which I understand do not animate in the timeline itself - please correct me if I am wrong). I went into the actions panel and saw all of the AS3 code commented out. The structure I see in the actions panel includes dropdown for global (nothing in there), Scene 1 (there’s only one scene in this project) which has script_lay

I've been playing with the bones tool and have got it fairly worked out, like the odd use of the Select tool vs. the Transform tool for manipulating the Armature, but I can't get a reliable method for selecting a bone. I'm only able to select a bone using the selection tool so it shows in the Property panel about 10% of the time. 90% of the time, nothing gets selected.The documentation for On-Stage Controls at Use the Bone tool animation in Animate CC doesn't work for me at all.Any tricks I'm missing?

I'm just curious if and when Animate will be updated to allow the user to do everything in HTML5 format as you can using ActionScript3.0. For a specific example, why can't you code an action to go to a different scene and play? Why, when I convert my ActionScript3.0 file to HTML5, does it break all the scenes apart into their own file? Is there another way to go about linking "pages" without splitting them into different scenes?

Hello all, My daughter is 16 years old and is an amazing sketch artist and has done a few small animations using Flip a Clip but wants to learn more.  What do you all recommend as a beginner software tool to sketch and animate?  Also, are there any classes available that she can take?  Should she use Adobe products or is there an easier/beginner software she should start out with? Thank you all for your feedbac  

Hi,I have created a simple movieclip with a fireworks explosion, and added a "this.stop" in the end of the clip. Now I would like this clip to be played randomly in the background of my webbanner. I can easely add it myself to the stage on various positions on the timepline multiple times and play it, but there must be a more simle way to script this?The clips needs to be randomly scaled as well. Another really alternative is using javascript / createjs to draw all particles, there are som really cool stuff people make with css/js in tutorials, but I dont know how to implement these features in Adobe Animate. Best regards,Mikkel Svensson

Is it possible for Animate sites to have BACKENDS, like, PROPER ones, which DO something? Is that like, PHP or node,js or something, or is there some other, Adobe-certified tool?

I drew a person, I want to double click his hand, and then make it a symbol. However, when I double click, I only choose the enclosed area, and not also the outline of the hand. When I hold shift and also select the outline of the hand, it selects the outline of the whole person. Can I only select the outline of the hand, and not the whole character I have?

Dear Adobe Support Community, sorry to trouble you, hope all are doing well during this strange time with the pandemic.     A long time user of Flash from long ago.  Most likely making a mess of it with the newer Animate offering with Canvas HTML5.  Able to present moving loaded content without sound uploaded to a server for a browser for awhile now.  Able to insert mp3 formate files in Animate just fine and export video files.  But having a real problem with testing the sound file for Canvas or having the mp3 load properly upon publishing to web server.  Using Safari browser.  Have read every posting the past couple of days, trying all the different helpful tips on the sound subject, but I am missing the obvious.  Seem to be stuck.  Made certain to use 44.1 kHz, 16 bit sound file.  It doesn't play the sound in a test either while running Animate before publishing, but if I open the test HTML page individually on my computer withou

I have no clue what i'm doing wrong, i just open Adobe Animate 2021 and open a file or new project, and it instantly closes (When it sends the crash report message once you click any button that closes the crash report Adobe also closes)If anyone could help that would be very nice, thanks in advance

I drew a person, I want to double click his hand, and then make it a symbol. However, when I double click, I only choose the enclosed area, and not also the outline of the hand. When I hold shift and also select the outline of the hand, it selects the outline of the whole person. Can I only select the outline of the hand, and not the whole character I have?

Hi,I have been working on an animation that includes a few high-quality PNGs. They look good when I am in Animate, but when I export them they are pixelated in the video. The first screen capture is one example in Animate and then the 2nd is after it is exported. I have several animated clips I am working on and they all have the same issue. Thanks in advance for your help! 

Where can I view the motion tweens in Adobe Animate? So the line I can change? I cant see the path, the Symbol is moving on. I want the Sybol (little stroke) to move along the path, but I cant see the path on which the symbol is right now, that meas I cant change the path from the motion tween.. Please Help.Thanks.  

Welcome to another episode of adobe updating softwares but never testing it and never fixing any bugs before releasing a new version of any product.I want to put music between some frames where i used the option F6Basically the music should play and stop between those frames but no.....

Hey, I've sorta figured out how to use the brushes in animate but. Every time I'm gonna draw a line whether it's normal brush, or paint brush. Before I let go of my brush stroke it shows my line as very small lines. and with normal brush a transparent version of my line I just wanted to know if i could turn that off.

Fellow animators, I've been using Animate 2021 for about a month now and have stumbled upon a little problem:My audio quality (including background music/noise, speech, voices, etc) becomes quite bad after uploading to YouTube or other social media platforms.Before updating the program to Animate 2021, I had Animate CC 2018. Everytime I finished a new animation in Animate CC 2018, I would go to 'Publish Settings' and then to 'Audio Stream'. I would then change the compression from MP3 to ADPCM, because this allowed me to have perfect audio quality when posting to social media channels.However, with Adobe's new 2021 update, I just cannot find the Audio Stream and compression options anymore when clicking on 'Publish Settings', in fact the whole panel looks different than the 2018 version. That is why I assumed that the audio type would fit the social media channels automatically, through Media Encoder or such. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Please could anyone help me wi

When i click on create new and new document screen comes up it does not it does not show full disply instead its cut off and it doesnt even give me the option to scroll to the side to view the rest of the disply. Im using a windows 10

I've put some audio into Animate, and I'm having the typical issue of "The audio will only play on frame 1 and nowhere else". I've looked it up and it says that you're meant to change the audio from Event to Stream from the Properties menu. I go to the properties menu, find the Sync section and click it; my audio is set to Event. "Ok" I think, "Time to change it to Sync instead". I click the menu and all the options are there; Start, Stop and Stream. There's just one problem...I can't click them. Y'know when there's an option in a menu that you can't click because it's a different colour? (Usually grey) Yeah, that's what's happening.Please help(The audio is a WAV file by the way)

Hello Adobe Community   ,  I wonder if anyone can advise me on the best/correct file type to use when importing my character artwork into Animate CC for animation. I think i am now a bit confused and baffled over which file types to export or which program to use for creating artwork.  If someone could advise me on a/the correct process that would be great. I use a combination of Illustrator , Photoshop and Affinity designer for graphics. My artwork is usually made in Affinity designer or Illustrator and then taken into Photoshop so i can assemble the parts of a character. Once this is done i am  importing to Illustrator because i am thinking it needs to be vector based for scalability. This process usually results in the effects applied in Affinity distorting or dissapearing. This led me to create artwork without effects but that is not ideal for me...  so instead i thought i could just import a PSD file in order to keep the applied effects intact. The ef

I'm trying to create a HTML5 banner ad (MPU) with static text but my text keeps disappearing when I try and test it in browser. It works perfectly in editing mode so I'm not sure what's happening. For context: I'm converting the text to a graphic symbol and using motion tweens. I was originally using the font Frutiger but switched to Arial and Helvetica but still having the same problem. Dynamic text does work but I need this to be static text. When I open the file this message comes up, I've mapped the fonts to Helvetica but still experiencing the same problem (I'm no sure where these fonts have come from):Your help is much appreciated!Beth

Sorry I couldnt get the photo to face right side up. But those are all the options and settings I get for changing things about the brush. I can change the brush size and the smoothness and all that, but I can't seem to find a way to change the brush style itself to a different texture or design, for now it's only the standard brush. I can view the brush library, but strangely I'm only able to find the brush style option in the retangle tool and a few others I think. Do I need to update? Is this a glitch? Please help if you can, thanks! -Sean W.

I'm trying to get a reference to exportRoot from a js file that I added as an external file within the project. But I'm getting this error:Can't find variable: exportRoot Doest anyone know how can I get a reference to my objects in the timeline from an external javascript file? Thank you