Unable to locate Filters in Animate 2020

[Brad Boyce]

I have just begun to teach myself how to use Animate 2020 and I've encountered my first stumbing block. I don't seem to be able to locate the add filter button in the Properties panel. I've looked though previous posts for any clues, but remains unresolved. There are a couple of posts relating to previous versions but not the current 2020 version.

Use Advanced Layers box is checked yet for the life of me I cannot locate filters anywhere. I would be most grateful for assistance please.

Thank you

[n. tilcheff]

Hi mate,

Click on a Keyframe in the timeline, then look at the bottom of Properties. Filters should be there:

[Brad Boyce]

Hey, thank you for your reply.

I've attached a screen shot of my Properties panel and when a Keyframe is selected I only see Label and Sound. The panel is blank below those two. Surely something not right here? 

[n. tilcheff]

Hi again, mate,

Either make your file type AS3 (not HTML5 Canvas) or make sure the object on the Keyframe is an instance of a Movie Clip.

With Canvas you have this limitation: you can only apply filters to Movie Clips.

[Brad Boyce]

Well I knew there had to be a logical reason why I'm having this issue.

Thank you for your help Nick, very much appreciated. Now with that sorted I can get on with it.

Thanks mate 🙂

[n. tilcheff]

Well done, Brad!

Glad to know you got those filters under control 🙂