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Layers in Animate will Not accept Motion Tween

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March 2, 2018
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I am a beginner at this... and I have followed the tutorial to animate... step by step...(I think)... and when we got to the part that you choose 4 or 5 layers to create a motion tween... it refused, and said that one of the layers must have a feature like audio that prevents it. I did that even with NEW layers that contain nothing.

I noticed that even when I create a New layer there is NO symbol of a pen to indicate that this layer is editable.. but instead it has the symbol of (back-play-forward)... but I didn't do that myself, so I'm not sure why its happening. see image below and please let me know if you know what it means ... thanks

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Correct answer JoãoCésar17023019

It seems to me that you are trying to apply motion tweens to drawing objects. To use motions tweens, you must first convert your objects to symbols.

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Yes, as Joao mentioned, the problem is because you are trying to apply Motion tween on Shapes/Drawing objects.

You need to click on first frame of each layer one by one and convert it to a Symbol (press F8) first.

After that you can select all the layers and apply Motion tween together.

JoãoCésar17023019Correct answer

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It seems to me that you are trying to apply motion tweens to drawing objects. To use motions tweens, you must first convert your objects to symbols.

Dima-OAuthor

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Thanks Joao...

I will try that and let you know if it works

Brainiac

Sooo.... attempt to apply the tween to one frame at a time until you've isolated which one is causing the problem?

Dima-OAuthor

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Hi Clay...

Tried that already... it wont let me because all the layers seem to have that same problem, and have the same symbol...

I just don't know how or why they got it...

Brainiac

Well I'm out of ideas. Another reason to be glad I never use Motion Tweens.