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toymaker1
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March 10, 2020
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Using the camera tool with Movieclips

  • March 10, 2020
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Hello.

Can anyone tell me how to use the Camera tool with a Movieclip animation? As I understand it, Movieclip animated movement can onlly be seen when testing the animation, but not in the Timeline view, so I cannot see how you can achieve camera effects with a static animation. There is obviously something that I am not getting. Grateful for any help.

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    Correct answer n. tilcheff

    If you are using recent versions of Animate (19 or 20) this will not be necessary. Filters can be applied to Graphic Symbol instances, frames or entire layers on the timeline, just the same as you could to Movie Clips in the past.

     

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    toymaker1Author
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2020

    To n_tilcheff.

    Thanks for your respoonse. Wow! That is really good news. I had not realised that I could apply shadows to a graphic symbol. - I thought it had to be a movieclip.

      n. tilcheff
      n. tilcheff
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      March 10, 2020

      One way would be to switch the Movie Clip temporarily to Graphic on the timeline.

      If you are not creating interactive content, there is no reason to use Movie Clips at all.

       

      Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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      toymaker1Author
      Inspiring
      March 10, 2020
      Thanks for your help. One reason I was using movieclips is I have created
      animated shadows, which apparently require movieclips.
      n. tilcheff
      n. tilcheffCorrect answer
      Legend
      March 10, 2020

      If you are using recent versions of Animate (19 or 20) this will not be necessary. Filters can be applied to Graphic Symbol instances, frames or entire layers on the timeline, just the same as you could to Movie Clips in the past.

       

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