animated symbols with own timeline not showing on main stage timeline

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 7, 2022
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I am very new to animate and would love some help.

I have added motion tweens to symbols in isolation from the main stage, they have their own timeline that does not show in the scene's main time line. The animation appears to work when I go into Control, Test Movie however the animation it will not export to a video (just get an image). This is an image of the main timeline:

Individual symbol timeline:

How do I get the symbol timelines to play on the main timeline?

Is there a way to export to an mp4 as is?

Correct answer Nick Gioia

change movieclip to a graphic symbol.

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Lee36709820gonm

Participant

OMG thank you ur a lifesaver!! (been working on my project, stuck on the fact that my movie clip isn't animated in the scene!!)

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Nick Gioia

Correct answer

Community Expert

change movieclip to a graphic symbol.

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jamieh65229939

Participant

I'm having the same problem, i've converted them to symbols but they still don't have their own timeline when i double click on them

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mark@headTrix

Community Expert

they must, ALL symbols have their own timeline. Double-clicking or right clicking is Edit in place.... which should bring you to the symbols timeline IF it is indeed a symbol.

Try checking out this 7 mintues video that teaches you about Movie Clips
https://youtu.be/KaRZtkDcCpw

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Joseph Labrecque

Community Expert

It must be a Movie Clip symbol that isn't playing, right? Use a Graphic symbol as that is bound to the parent timeline and will play back within Animate.

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