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How do I have the stage faded when I enter a symbol?

New Here ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

I don't know what happened but suddenly when I enter a symbol, everything is white behind it and I don't see the faded stage behind it like how I used to when animating symbols.

How do I animate inside a symbol, where the stage is faded behind it so I can see where I'm animating?!

:,( What am I not seeing here?

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Adobe Employee , Mar 09, 2018 Mar 09, 2018

The mode that you're describing is called Edit-in-place mode for Symbol editing.

This mode is disabled if either Camera or Advanced Layers or Layer Depth is enabled. You can turn off those functionalities temporarily to use edit-in-place mode.

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New Here , May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018

I think it's the Preview Mode setting.

When I'm on full, it lets me see all the layers fully.

Anti-alias text mode fades the stage whenever I enter symbols, etc.

Hope this helps!

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Community Expert ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

from the main timeline, double click the symbol you want to edit.

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New Here ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

That's what I've been doing this whole time, my dude. I'm in the main timeline, double clicking these symbols at all various points, but when I enter the symbol there's no faded stage behind it. Its ALL WHITE.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

restart your computer and retry.

if that fails, reset your preferences - 

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/re-create-preferences-flash-professional.html

    (or remove Win:  C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate CC 2017\ and

                                  C\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Animate\2017\

                        Mac:   /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Animate CC 2017/ and

                                    /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Animate/2017/)

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LEGEND ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

At the top of the stage, when you go into a symbol, does it say "Scene 1 > your symbol name"? Or does it only say your symbol name?

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New Here ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

It looks like this:

Screen Shot 2018-03-06 at 2.40.01 PM.png

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LEGEND ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

Well, so much for my theory.

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New Here ,
Mar 06, 2018 Mar 06, 2018

Yeah I like understand where you're coming from. It does LOOK like I'm entering the art boards of the symbols rather than from the stage. Funny thing is that in groups, I can see faded stage just fine.

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Adobe Employee ,
Mar 08, 2018 Mar 08, 2018

Was your issue resolved, or do you still need help. If you do, use this link Contact Customer Care to get in touch with our support team.

Thanks,

Preran

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New Here ,
Mar 08, 2018 Mar 08, 2018

My answer is still unsolved and I tried to go through the contact customer care link but it only allows me to click into the community forums again, which still hasn't helped me. If I can't solve this problem soon, things are going to get pretty unbearable at my work place with how this is slowing me down.......

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Adobe Employee ,
Mar 09, 2018 Mar 09, 2018

The mode that you're describing is called Edit-in-place mode for Symbol editing.

This mode is disabled if either Camera or Advanced Layers or Layer Depth is enabled. You can turn off those functionalities temporarily to use edit-in-place mode.

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New Here ,
Mar 12, 2018 Mar 12, 2018

Is there any word on when there may be some kind of fix for this? I feel like there should be some way to implement edit in place without having to turn off camera, because despite that I still need to view where I'm animating, and I've I've already moved symbols all around all over the place from the original position once I turn the camera off, then I can't accurately animate where things SHOULD be in reference to the rest of the animation.

In this way, it's just better to not have a camera at all and just animate using one large symbol composition that pretends to be a camera!

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New Here ,
May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018

I think it's the Preview Mode setting.

When I'm on full, it lets me see all the layers fully.

Anti-alias text mode fades the stage whenever I enter symbols, etc.

Hope this helps!

flash.png

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New Here ,
Jul 07, 2025 Jul 07, 2025
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Yoooo thankyou!!! this one fixed it for me

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Explorer ,
Jun 05, 2018 Jun 05, 2018

Found the answer, after looking for an answer to the same problem and finding this thread.     Solution is to hit this new camera icon just under the timeline.  Looks like it's default as on, when you turn it off, Flash acts normal. 

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LEGEND ,
Jun 05, 2018 Jun 05, 2018

No, the default is off. If it's on, you turned it on.

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Explorer ,
Jun 05, 2018 Jun 05, 2018

You're right.  i clicked the camera on theleft hand toolbar because it was new.  Didn't notice it did anything.   anyways, hopefully that fixes the original guys issue.

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