I have no issues building my own custom Hot Keys? Make sure you are using the latest version cause the 2003 version is very old and no longer supported. lol
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You would almost be better creating all your different-sized ads in InDesign and then bringing them into animate to animate them. That's how I do it. Much faster.
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here are some tutorials on how to rig a character and lip sync.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXCCqYyo10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUZC-GZyA5o
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Here is a tutorial for photoshop, once you export a png sequence from animate.
https://www.adorama.com/alc/how-to-make-an-animated-gif-in-photoshop/
I will have to show you the difference at a later date when I have time. 🙂
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I often found if you export your files out of animate as PNG files and put them together inside Photoshop you'll get a better quality Gif.
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