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November 2, 2021
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Can't import sequences into Animate

  • November 2, 2021
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Hi - can't seem to import image sequences into Adobe animate. It consistently only lets me import the images one at a time rather than the whole sequence in one go. Have tried various naming conventions and number paddings but doesn't make any difference. 

 

Any help very much appreciated! Seems like a bit of a bug...?

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    JoãoCésar17023019
    JoãoCésar17023019
    Community Expert
    November 2, 2021

    Hi.

     

    I've just tested with images named like image_0.jpg, image_1.jpg, image_0.jpg... and image_00.jpg, image_01.jpg, image_02.jpg... and they all worked as expected.

     

    How are your image files named?

     

    And please take a look at this answer for info on how to import image sequences into Animate:
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/importing-image-sequences-to-animate-cc/m-p/9626884#M176401

     

    Regards,

    JC

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    zenjepAuthor
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    November 2, 2021

    Hi there - have tried various naming conventions and number pads but it doesn't make any diffference - have tried things like filename_01.svg, filename_02.svg, filename_03.svg (it's an svg sequence I'm trying to import by the way) and various permutations of those etc but still doesn't work. Still only wants to import each file one by one.

    JoãoCésar17023019
    JoãoCésar17023019
    Community Expert
    November 2, 2021

    It's a bit nuts. If there are limitations with certain kinds of file formats it should be made clear. There's no documentation I've seen which states any of this. The same happens if you try and import a sequence of illustrator files - all have to be clicked one by one. It seems that if you produce a vector based animation and try and import it, you have to bring in each frame individually. That's really not good, especially considering as it's software that primarily uses vectors as it's building blocks. 


    Yeah, you're right.

     

    Alternatively, you can have your frames as layers of an Illustrator file and import the AI file itself.

     

    Then you can distribute the layers to frames.

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