Here's a weird thing: I have two layers, locked and hidden; I have a movieclip symbol that's supposed to bounce through the piece. But, when I use Test Movie to preview my animation, they show up. Worse yet, my movieclip symbol doesn't move when I save as an animated GIF...
Hiding layers will only hide themduring authoring - you could make those layers be Guide Layers and they would not be output. As for the MoivieClip nested animation ot playing back in the GIF... change its behaviour to that of a Graphic Symbol and then it should render the internal animation on output.
I think I figured it out... When I simply used the Export/Export Animated GIF, I got no motion from neither my movieclip symbol *nor* a Graphic symbol version of the same loop I wanted to use. I tried different formats of exporting/publishing but when I used Export/Export Video/Media and chose and Animated GIF there - my looping symbol worked, even as a movieclip.
Besides the guide approach mentioned by Joseph, it's possible to prevent Animate from publishing hidden layers by going to File > Publish Settings... (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F12) and unchecking Include hidden layers.
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