No way to import a sequence into Animate?

[kmonk9000]

Hello, 
I have followed all the videos and tutorials on importing image sequences into Animate but nothing seems to work. I have a series of PNG files all named in sequential order. When I choose "Import to stage" and select the files, they all appear on the one frame on top of each other, not on individual frames as I have seen on other video examples. Also when I select the files I am not given any sort of dialog box to adjust the import settings. 

What am I doing wrong?  

[JoãoCésar]

Hi.

If the files are correctly named, you have to select only the first one and Animate will prompt to import as a sequence or not.

Please see this answer:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/importing-image-sequences-to-animate-cc/m-p/96268...

Regards,

JC

[kmonk9000]

Hello! Thanks for the reply- they are correctly named and when I select the first one- it only imports that file and doesn't prompt me to select sequence or not. 

[kmonk9000]

Ok- so apparently when you export layers to files from PS, even if you remove the prefix, Adobe still adds"_001_" to each of the file names which will not work with Animate. I had to rename all the files and then it worked. 

Ugh. At least its a solution but time consuming. 

[JoãoCésar]

You can also do like in the first GIF: select all the images that you want and then distribute them to keyframes.

[Mario_CR]

Did you export using "Layers to Files" in Photoshop?

If so that option is not made for image sequences. Go to File > Export > Render video, select Photoshop Image Sequence and format PNG. Each frame will be correctly labeled that way.

[kmonk9000]

@Mario_CR - thanks for the heads up- I did not know that! Usually if I name each one on my layers sequentially and remove the prefix option it would usually work. I never tried the image sequence- thanks for the tip!

[kmonk9000]

@Mario_CR - I must be doing something wrong since I used the settings you suggested and it just combines all my layers into on PNG file. 

[Mario_CR]

You have to arrange the layers in a timeline first inside photoshop. That should've been step one, sorry.

Here's how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exn47g9aw6s&ab_channel=JacobRivkin