Unable to export animation in any format

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May 7, 2017
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Oh dear. I'm a rank beginner but was pleased to manage a 40 frame simple animation that I wanted to turn into a gif. And my god, I just cannot seem to publish or export it in any format that works! It looks great. I run it as a test (on browsers) and it works...but nothing else. I've read all the forums, which get far too complex for me. I'm missing something simple. Apologies for the stupidity! I'm on a mac running Adobe Animate CC 2017. Thanks!

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kglad

Community Expert

is your animation on the main timeline or is in a movieclip that's on the main tmeline?

did you use file>export>export animated gif..?

felixwellsAuthor

Participant

I did use file export and so on, and it creates a still image unfortunately. As for main timeline or movieclip, I don't know what these terms mean. I have about 8 layers in the timeline. The animation is simply the entire timeline with all the layers. Do I perhaps need to compress these layers into something before exporting? Thank you for helping!

Colin Holgate

Inspiring

It's the "and so on" part that is important. Most other exports are still images. You want:

File/Export/Export Animated GIF...

In the export dialog there are a lot of options, where you can set whether the animation is looped, and what colors it uses. There's a play button in there too, so you can see what the animation is going to look like.

Also, not all programs can view animated gif. Is it also a still image if you open the animated gif in a web browser?

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