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Inspiring
March 17, 2018
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Help with Adobe Animate relating to in-betweening.

  • March 17, 2018
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Hi. I'm really, really new to Animate, so I need a bit of help. Basically my problem is that if I try to do in between animation (you know, drawing one character in one position, another in another, then filling in the gaps) I can't insert blank frames in between. This probably has a simple answer, but it's been dealing me a lot of frustration. Also, F5 seems to convert all of the already drawn frames into blank ones, and F6 does the same. I have tried to move the frames manually, but it seems that it just creates a duplicate of said frame to move.

HELP.

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Correct answer smef463911

You are fully zoomed in on two frames. You can't fit a tween between two consecutive frames. If you clicked and dragged the frame 2 keyframe, along the timeline to say frame 10, then you can get at the gap between the two in order to add the tween.

Clicking on frame 1 and doing F5 should have worked too. Your video suggests that your shift key is stuck on. Shift-F5 would delete a frame. It would have the effect you see, of making frame 2 move to where frame 1 used to be.


I understand now. Basically, long story short, hitting F5 wouldn't work because it turned my backlights on so I usually hit shift and f5 and it works but apparently in animate it doesnt so I simply changes the keyboard shortcut to insert a frame. Thank you so much for helping me out.

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JoãoCésar17023019
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Community Expert
March 17, 2018

Hi.

Select the inbetween frame and press F7. Is that what you want?

Inspiring
March 17, 2018

Sorry. What I meant is that I can't select the in-between frame because it doesn't exist.

JoãoCésar17023019
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 17, 2018

Ahh. I understand. I thought there was a different way to do it.

For the second part of the answer, though, im confused.

i have to hit shift+f5 or nothing will happen except turn on the backlit keys on my PC.

Am I missing something?


Please ignore the "ghosts". I hope it helps.