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jecamartinez
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May 18, 2017
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Adobe Flash CS6: How to move keyframes and automatically change its frame number

  • May 18, 2017
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Hi all, I use CS6 and I was wondering if there's a way for me to move keyframes and at the same time the frame number changes with it?

For example I have a keyframe at frame 2 and I want to move it to frame 10. I want it's frame number to automatically change to 10 as well instead of staying at 2.

When I edit client work it's very tedious for me to go through each frame and change them one by one. Thanks in advance!

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Correct answer _keyframer

Here's the trick to doing this. It's called "Sync" and it can only be used if a Classic Motion Tween is applied. So, even though you aren't really motion tweening anything, starting on the first keyframe for this symbol on this layer, click/drag to select ALL keyframes across the layer and then right-click over the selection and select Classic Tween from the context menu. Now, just make sure all keyframes are still selected and in the Properties panel, make sure the "SYNC" checkbox is checked. This will ensure the nested frames match with the parent frame number.

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ClayUUID
Legend
May 18, 2017

What you're saying doesn't make sense. If you move a keyframe to frame 99... its frame number is 99.

Are you talking about frame LABELS?

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jecamartinezAuthor
Participating Frequently
May 18, 2017

Sorry if I wasn't clear, but here's a picture to illustrate:

Let's say my animation is inside this graphic symbol, and on the main timeline I have a keyframe on frame #2. If I move that keyframe to frame #10 (as on the picture), in the Looping Panel that keyframe still says frame 2. What I'm trying to do is to automatically make the frame number change according to wherever the keyframe is

Hope that's clearer

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
May 18, 2017

Doing it the way you're trying doesn't work, but you could instead make frame 10 be a new keyframe and then clear the frame 2 keyframe, and the one at frame 10 should start with frame 10 instead of 2.

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