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kmonk9000
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Feb 24, 2022 4:14 PM UTC
Question

No way to import a sequence into Animate?

Hello, 
I have followed all the videos and tutorials on importing image sequences into Animate but nothing seems to work. I have a series of PNG files all named in sequential order. When I choose "Import to stage" and select the files, they all appear on the one frame on top of each other, not on individual frames as I have seen on other video examples. Also when I select the files I am not given any sort of dialog box to adjust the import settings. 

What am I doing wrong?  

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    JoãoCésar17023019
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    JoãoCésar17023019Community Expert
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    Feb 24, 2022 4:40 PM UTC

    Hi.

     

    If the files are correctly named, you have to select only the first one and Animate will prompt to import as a sequence or not.

     

    Please see this answer:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/importing-image-sequences-to-animate-cc/m-p/9626884#M176401

     

    Regards,

    JC

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    kmonk9000Author
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    Feb 24, 2022 4:50 PM UTC

    Hello! Thanks for the reply- they are correctly named and when I select the first one- it only imports that file and doesn't prompt me to select sequence or not. 

     

     

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    kmonk9000Author
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    Feb 24, 2022 4:57 PM UTC

    Ok- so apparently when you export layers to files from PS, even if you remove the prefix, Adobe still adds"_001_" to each of the file names which will not work with Animate. I had to rename all the files and then it worked. 

    Ugh. At least its a solution but time consuming. 

     

     

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