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I've created 2 layers in animate - one with colour, the other with 'multiply' blending effect applied.  I want to create a mask so both layers can be revealed but to do this I have to merge the layers into one, however when I do this, I lose the blending effect.  Does anyone know how I can merge the layers and preserve the multiply blending effect of the layer?  Thank you in advance!

Hey,So basically i have a walk cycle already created but at the monet the charcter just walks on the spot so that the background can move behind him to make it look like hes moving hower there is also a scene where the background stays still. How would i make my still walk cycle move along the screen while keeping all the arm and leg movments doing the same thing I dont know if that makes as much sense but hopefully you can help Thanks

Can SWF files be played in Microsoft PowerPoint?  If not, what would you suggest is the best format to export a FLA file to be presented in a PowerPoint presentation.

Hi, I'm trying to mask a layer with another animated movieclip in a masking layer. The masking layer is made up of a number of concentric circles that are scaling in relation to each other. The problem is that animate doesn't seem to consider the outer outlined circles in the mask (I've converted the outlines to filled shapes rather than strokes so it's not that I'm trying to mask with a stroke). Instead, animate masks using only the center filled circle. (I've attached an image to help demonstrate what's going on)Is this a limitation or a bug in Animate or am I doing something wrong? 

Hello everybody,I will first apologize if the question has already been asked before on this forum, I am a complete rookie. ^^' So a week ago I decided to buy the Adobe Creative Cloud package for students, for around 20.00€ per month. I was mainly looking for Adobe Animate and Photoshop so I started by downloading Animate CC. I went on my account page on the Adobe website, downloaded "Animate_and_Mobile_Device_Packaging_Installer.dmg", opened and followed the instructions. Then, after that I registered another time, and gave a few information about me, the downloading process started. It reached about 20%, but then completely stopped. The remaining time was about 45 minutes according to Adobe, so after 2 or 3 hours where nothing happened (still blocked at 20%), I decided to restart from scratch. Same process up to the beginning of the download, but this time, it reached 0,6% and, like the first try, stopped progressing at this stage. It was also written this time "error P81",

Hello, I am hoping you wonderful people can help me, again. I am having an issue with the output I get from one of my animations. As you can see in the video below when I export it, what is supposed to be a flying car does not display properly. It appears to be the correct image, just not rendering at the right scale. It’s difficult to explain, the video shows it clearly. As you will also see, the preview when I scrub through the timeline displays it mostly correctly, although as I zoom out, it disappears. I’ve had the disappearing issue before, but its always exported correctly. I just assumed that the live preview cut down on detail. At the end of the video you can see that I do have a work around, if the camera is zoomed in far enough, it renders correctly. I can make do with this, but I’d rather understand the underlying problem so I can fix it for future projects. I have tried my usual choice for exporting, a jpeg sequence, I’ve tried PNG, GIF, SWF, all to

I am trying to simulate a dice roll in an activity for my class. I can generate a random number between 1 and 6 and place it in a textbox on the canvas.What I need help with is how to display a series of numbers in the text box before it stops at the final numnber (sort of like a dice roll) Here is where I have got to: function rolldice(){     for (i=0; i<10; i++){.    // the idea here would be to display a series of 10 random numbers between 1 and 6 with a short pause in between.          this.num1.text=randomIntFromInterval(1,6).      //this is a function I use and it generates the random number. num1 is the name of the text field.          setTimeout ....... //this is where I have trouble ... I don't know if I am using the correct idea.     }} I wonder if someone can give me a hand with this. Thank you 

I want to create a book within Flash Animate on letter size paper. What are the stage  dimensions in pixels so when printed will fill letter size paper? Thanks

When I test my animation using ctrl+enter the swf file doesnt show exactly where I'm placing my camera. Say I want it to just show the top of the triangle, itll show the top and more. The camera tool just isn't lining up with where I place it in the swf file. Please help!!! thank you!!!

The AMPHTML Ads BETA extension for Animate does not launch. Please update us Adobe on when we can create AMPHTML Banners in Animate. thanks.

As the title suggests, I am struggling to stop the frame picker from looping the frames when I test the animation. Everything is fine when I play the animation in the timeline. The single frames would play as intended. however, the test animation window tells a different story. Is it suppose to that? How do I fix this problem?

I have seen similar questions about this on forums from years ago, but I have not seen an answer that solved this problem. Maybe someone now has a solution. I am trying to add voices to characters in my animation, and when I play the animation in the frames, the voices are in sync, but when I hit "test movie," the voices fall out of sync after the first few lines (the sound begins too early). I even tried pushing back the sound in the frames to be behind, but it does not have an equal effect at the "test movie" stage. My sound files are MP3, they are set to stream, repeat x1. I also tried adjusting the frame speed to 23.98 per second as another forum suggested. Nothing works. I spent 5 weeks on the animation just to be stopped by this issue as I was about to finish. Very frustrating. Feeling like Adobe Animate is ripping me off. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I am working on a project that needs to shape tween the letters 'be' into the letter 'a'. The only instructions I can find in the Animate tutorials has a box become a circle. I have converted the letters into symbols but it doesn't work. I have tried the process with the letters un'symbolized'. The 'Shape Tween' option is not available to me in either instance.  Help!

Hi,So, I am to create a new file, HTML 5, for a facebook animation banner ad.What's the best size to create this?Thanks

Hi, I'm quite new in the field of Adobe Animate and have quite of a simple question. When I import the vector graphics from the Animate CC Lib, the object is divided to symbols but I can't figure out how to show the trace vectors. The Ctrl+; , ctrl+u, ctrl + h don't seem to work. The Show Edges and Show Bounding Box are turned on.Might the problem be caused because I have a trial version of Adobe Cloud ?

Is there no simple way to control an audio clip in HTML5 Canvas using the Code Snippets. Seems such a simple requirement that you could start, skip and stop an audio clip using a button click somewhere like you can with a video file. Thanks

Hi I'm a student and I just started using animate but every time I try to save I get a unknown error message and it try's to quit the app with out saving. I've tried resetting preferences and I can't uninstall and reinstall the app. Is there any way to fix it.

Hey legends,I've got audio playing fine within a scene but as soon as I go back to the main/original (Scene 1) there is no audio on tests, play option or renders.I have tested random tracks on Scene 1 and they play but no audio from tracks within the scene.

So I've been staying at my boyfriend's house during the quarantine, away from my desktop PC. I have my laptop with me and a Huion GT-191 graphics tablet (which is not exactly made to be portable but I digress). I had everything set up and working just fine, even in Animate (2020, latest version as of two weeks ago), until I decided to change the position of my monitors in the Display settings (Windows 10) because it was registering my tablet as underneath my laptop screen when I wanted it to be to the right. After changing these settings, I'm now seeing the commonly reported issue of the lines I'm drawing with the brush tool appearing 3 inches below where I actually have the pen to the screen. This is only happening in AnimateThe pen still works correctly in Photoshop and MS PaintThe driver for the tablet was just installed an hour agoI have closed and reopened Animate, restarted my computer, recalibrated my tablet, and changed the screen size settings in Display Setting

hi! I am attempting to figure out how to animate text on a path. Imagine the image below as an animation (and I would hide the line so it just appears the text is moving in a waved line):..(this was taken from a photoshop tutorial website): See link below herehttps://ibb.co/j8cdfsX I have looked everywhere for how to do this. Yes there are tutorials how to move an object across a designated path, but for the text, I was hoping this could be done simpler, without needing to transform every letter as an individual object and set them up to follow one another (this seems way more complicated, esp for a longer sentence!) Does anyone have any possible idea if this is possible in Animate?!! I would seriously be so appreciative of this help.

I finished an animation and when it came down to working with my camera, anytime I set it up and go to check my progress it doesn't work. It still shows everything in the stage even when it's supposed to be zoomed in. It's only works when I zoom in extremely or zoom out extremely. thank you

I was not actively using my Adobe Animate at the time, but the program was still running in the background, when the entire program just shut down unexpectedly. I hadn't saved in a day, and when I tried to open the recovery file, all I got was an "error occured opening file" message. What should I do??

I have some old .fla files I would like to convert to mov or mp4 files can someone tell me how to do it? What software do I need?

Hello,I'm converting my Flash application to HTML5 Canvas in Adobe Animate.  The old Flash version had a List Component.  This had a scrollbar, selectable items, data provider, etc.  In that, I read an XML file and populated the List with the data.The new HTML5 Canvas List Component is only a numbered or bulleted list -- it is nothing like the "listbox"-style Component from Flash.  There is no scrollbar, and you can't select any items.Can anyone please answer:1) Should I be doing something different in Adobe Animate/HTML5 Canvas to achive the same style of scrollable/selectable List Component?2) If not, can you please point me in the right direction of how I can bring in that type of object?Thank you for any help.

Hi,Every tutorial I watch has the brush tool with size and min size properties.I downloaded Animate yesterday and i can only find 'classic brush'. It doesn't have the min size property.The more I watch tutorials on your website the more I notice is missing.I've tried beginner and expert preferences and every workspace type.I've attached some pictures to show what I mean.Please help!