Tweening with alpha color effect breaks export

Question

So I'm working on an animation and I finished the project, and all that's left to do is add some pictures of text that fade in over the top of the animation. To do this, I created a classic tween, the first frame using the Alpha color effect to be entirely transparent, and the next frame being completely opaque so it fades in like I wanted it to. This effect looks fine before I export it. However, when I export it, I get a series of errors and my export is all messed up. The exported video's camera tool doesn't work anymore, along with the text not fading in, and simply appearing. How do I fix this?

These are the error messages I get when exporting

I've also attatched what my export looks like when I don't add the words, and what it looks like when I do add the words.

Mario_CR · Accepted Answer

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V5YLDtkayNRu-E-XLa5FvcfThXp9za3_/view?usp=sharing

Here's the link!

Thank you, I looked at your file, and unbelievably, the issue is the NAME of one of your layers.

The layer in question is layer "as", inside Folder 1.

Turns out you can't have a layer named "as" with a camera on stage.

Made a test on a new document, previewed the SWF and got the same syntax error.

I changed the name and added a "t" which seems to fix it, but you can change it to whatever you want. Give it a try and let me know if it works for you.

On a side note, there are serious workflow issues with your project like: auto-generated symbols (tween1, tween2, tween3 etc), randomly switching from movie clips to graphics from one frame to another and so on. Although these have nothing to do with the camera problem, learning how to properly use symbols will help you to avoid similar frustrations in the future: https://youtu.be/NO2tcqbOx_U?si=jN619Y41TYF960XN

sergiopop75 · Answer

To export layers with alpha effects and other methods, the solution is to export image sequences, png or jpg, using menu/export movie. From this option, the export is based on what is displayed. When you export as a video, it first makes a SWF and then converts to video, so the effects are not applied.

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