types of symbols

Just learning Animate- why would you use a movie clip symbol vs graphic? Also is it only a movie clip that allows filters and effects?

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Movie Clips are for interactive projects and can be controlled with code.

Graphic Symbols are for non-interactive animation.

Do not use Movie Clips unless you have a very good idea why you chose that over a Graphic Symbols.

In recent versions of Animate you can apply Filters to keyframes and that includes Graphic symbols.

Effects could always be applied to Graphic Symbols.

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

n. tilcheffCorrect answer

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Movie Clips are for interactive projects and can be controlled with code.

Graphic Symbols are for non-interactive animation.

Do not use Movie Clips unless you have a very good idea why you chose that over a Graphic Symbols.

In recent versions of Animate you can apply Filters to keyframes and that includes Graphic symbols.

Effects could always be applied to Graphic Symbols.

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

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thank you! i am creating some simple animations- this is what i was thinking. the graphic symbols are working just fine.

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