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July 18, 2019
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How to Select Shapes Within a Shape Tween of a MOVIECLIP symbol

  • July 18, 2019
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In between the starting frame and the end frame of a MOVIECLIP shape tween, I want to select the intermediate shapes in the timeline so I can copy them. The frame picker only works for graphic symbols. No selection tool works...

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    Mejor respuesta de n. tilcheff

    Hi mate,

    What do the Movie Clip or the Frame Picker have to do with the whole thing?

    If I understand correctly you have two keyframes and a shape tween between those two.

    You want to copy one of the intermediate states of the shape to some other place.

    Convert that one frame to a keyframe and cut the frame; paste it somewhere else.

    If this is not what you want, please, explain further.

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    n. tilcheff
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    July 18, 2019

    Hi mate,

    What do the Movie Clip or the Frame Picker have to do with the whole thing?

    If I understand correctly you have two keyframes and a shape tween between those two.

    You want to copy one of the intermediate states of the shape to some other place.

    Convert that one frame to a keyframe and cut the frame; paste it somewhere else.

    If this is not what you want, please, explain further.

    Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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      murkalurk2099Autor
      Inspiring
      July 18, 2019

      https://forums.adobe.com/people/n.+tilcheff  wrote

      What do the Movie Clip or the Frame Picker have to do with the whole thing?

      I don't know, LOL, I would have thought a function called Frame Picker would help me out in this situation, but it is for graphic symbols only I guess?

      https://forums.adobe.com/people/n.+tilcheff  wrote

      Convert that one frame to a keyframe and cut the frame; paste it somewhere else.

      Bingo, that's exactly what I was after. Cheers!

        n. tilcheff
        n. tilcheff
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        July 18, 2019

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        Been working mostly with Flash for over 20 years and in the last 10 have been involved in improving the UX and extending its capabilities as a character animation environment. It has a lot of potential and is usually more fun to use than many of the other competing packages.

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        NT

        Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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