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murkalurk2099
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July 18, 2019
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How to Select Shapes Within a Shape Tween of a MOVIECLIP symbol

  • July 18, 2019
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In between the starting frame and the end frame of a MOVIECLIP shape tween, I want to select the intermediate shapes in the timeline so I can copy them. The frame picker only works for graphic symbols. No selection tool works...

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    Mejor respuesta de n. tilcheff

    Hi mate,

    What do the Movie Clip or the Frame Picker have to do with the whole thing?

    If I understand correctly you have two keyframes and a shape tween between those two.

    You want to copy one of the intermediate states of the shape to some other place.

    Convert that one frame to a keyframe and cut the frame; paste it somewhere else.

    If this is not what you want, please, explain further.

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    n. tilcheff
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    July 18, 2019

    Hi mate,

    What do the Movie Clip or the Frame Picker have to do with the whole thing?

    If I understand correctly you have two keyframes and a shape tween between those two.

    You want to copy one of the intermediate states of the shape to some other place.

    Convert that one frame to a keyframe and cut the frame; paste it somewhere else.

    If this is not what you want, please, explain further.

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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      murkalurk2099Autor
      Inspiring
      July 18, 2019

      https://forums.adobe.com/people/n.+tilcheff  wrote

      What do the Movie Clip or the Frame Picker have to do with the whole thing?

      I don't know, LOL, I would have thought a function called Frame Picker would help me out in this situation, but it is for graphic symbols only I guess?

      https://forums.adobe.com/people/n.+tilcheff  wrote

      Convert that one frame to a keyframe and cut the frame; paste it somewhere else.

      Bingo, that's exactly what I was after. Cheers!

        n. tilcheff
        n. tilcheff
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        July 18, 2019

        Yeah, the terminology can be a bit confusing.

        I'll try to explain what's the purpose of Frame Picker.

        In character animation, and in any projects that do not require interactivity, i.e. you don't need to control nested timelines with code, we use Graphic Symbols.

        (The general rule should be: You should only use Graphic Symbols unless you have a reason that you can name to use Movie Clips.)

        If used as a container for static images - for example different mouth positions or eyes or eyebrows - you can have a graphic symbol stopped displaying one frame: the open eyes; then when you would like to have a blink you create a keyframe and refer to the frame that contains the closed eyes inside the graphic container.

        Frame Picker facilitates this visually by choosing the frame that you want displayed in the current key.

        You can also just type a number in the Looping Properties section of Properties panel.

        Hope this makes sense!

        Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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