It has been present since AA 20.0 on Win and Mac. Not in H S B modes; only in R G B.   ... View more

You will find some answers to your questions here: https://flash-powertools.com/workflow/   You can also look at the various tutorials for all kinds of techniques and methodology: https://flash-powertools.com/category/tutorials/   And you can download some sample files to study: https://flash-powertools.com/tag/free-download/   ... View more

I've seen threads where people claim that metadata in MP3 can cause issues. Use 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM WAV instead.   ... View more

https://flash-powertools.com/classic-tweens-and-arcs/   ... View more

Hi @TheSpaceCat    Since from what you wrote you appear to be a professional user, I decided to write an additional short message.   Groups should be completely avoided in the final rigs, backgrounds or anination. Only use them, if ever, temporarily and ungroup/break apart the moment you are done moving or aligning objects.   It is only Groups that are ignored during various batch operations (not Symbols), because of their very ambiguous nature in the Flash realm.   Instead of Groups use layers, Symbols and Unions.   For more serious color management in character design and animation I'd suggest Symbol Palette Control.   ... View more

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/unable-to-multiply-transform-gdi-status-1/m-p/14265936#M370900   ... View more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_television_series https://twitter.com/ericjpringle     ... View more

Hi Andre,   No, I was just being kind to give you a hint why the thread was left without a reply the first time. This is a feature, not a bug.   Whether you like Flash's logic or not is another thing, but keep in mind that Flash is not Illustrator and complaining about it not being Illustrator would be the same as complaining on Illustrator's forum that Illustrator does not behave like Flash or that you are not happy with Illustrator's timeline and symbol nesting behaviour.   It will be more productive, if you start a new thread about your specific difficulty animating the letter. It is very likely that someone will be able to help you solve that.   Good luck!   ... View more

Since what is demonstrated above is not a problem, there is no solution to be found.   ... View more

Try to express yourself more clearly. The wall of text you have posted is unreadable.   Try to write clear, short, complete sentences. Start them with a capital letter and end them with a full stop.   You can also try to record a video to demonstrate the problem, or share your FLA for inspection.  This will increase the chances that someone might be able to help you.   ... View more

Just to add some historical context: This bug first appeared in Flash CS4 and persists through CS6. It is not present in AA 2015 to AA 2019, and was then re-introduced in AA 2020.   ... View more

Get into the habit of pressing Ctrl+Enter to publish a SWF. In most cases this will play well and smoothly at the required frame rate. You will never get consistently good results with timeline playback, no matter what you do.   ... View more

My advice to our users is to always install new versions separately, not on top of the existing ones. You can have multiple Animate installations of major releases to test and compare features, i.e AA21, AA22, AA23, and AA24 can co-exist without any issues or interference. Once you are sure the new version is stable and performs well enough you can uninstall the old one, but it is always good to have at least two.   Also: It is quite easy to stop the CC App notifications about updates and prevent it from starting with the computer. In this way the temptation to always have 'the latest and greatest' will disappear.   As everyone who has been following the developments of Animate in the last 6-7-8 years knows, they hardly have any QA and since the name change it has settled into a stage of perpetual beta, so just treat it with the necessary caution as beta software and you will be safe.   ... View more

You need to duplicate the symbols. If you need to make deep copies, use Duplicate Symbol Recursive.   ... View more

What you show in the video is normal behavior. Add shape hints to fix the 'broken' Shape Tween.   Note: For the type of movement you demonstrate, you should be using Classic Tweens on Graphic Symbols instead.   ... View more

Maybe you should try to reset / reinstall your Windows.   I tried your setup on Windows 10 with Animate 24, Animate 23, and Animate 22 and none of them crashed when I hit F9 and opened the Actions panel in a new Canvas document.   ... View more

You should be adding all the new keys inside one of those symbols, not adding more single-frame symbols to the main timeline.   ... View more

Ask the author, @Joseph Labrecque , for help.     ... View more

Hi @Tgibs2 ,   I'd say: Embrace flatness! This is what is easy to achieve and comes natural to Flash. Going against the medium will only create complications.   When teaching inexperienced designers you face two sets of challenges at the same time: - artistic - technical   This is a bad enough combination - the students don't know both what to do and how to do it.   Setting meaningful constraints on both what and how and limiting their freedom of choice usually can lead to better outcomes as they can focus on a goal within a clear, narrower range.   The 'what' Robots are very forgiving and designing one can be an excellent, well-received and inspiring task. There is no uncanny valley with robot design. There is very little to worry about joints, since you can expose them and that is fine. Also almost anything goes in terms of proportions.   With robots it would be much easier to have functional designs with outlines, which solves problems with contrast against a background.    Organic characters are way more challenging, both technically and artistically, which can often lead to disappointment, esp. at a young age.   The 'how' As for turnarounds, things don't really need to always be perfectly aligned as long as the perception of the same character being shown from different angles is not broken. Look at model sheets from some Flash animated shows from the 2000s, like "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends", "Powerpuff Girls" or "Samurai Jack" and you'll see. Simple is always better. If you need detail, cluster it in areas where it wouldn't get in the way of functionality. While full turnarounds may sound like a 'must', in reality a 3/4 view is the most important, and in most cases we can get away with only that or a little variation with two more views - something very close to front and something that is an almost side view, but still a little 3/4, because full profiles look unpleasantly flat. (People who have not done much life-drawing or properly studied anatomy have serious difficulty producing decently looking profile views of characters as they do not understand volume, construction and mechanics.)   Tasteful use of gradients is very rare. A good way to avoid awfully amateurish look is to ban gradient use. It is also worth discussing color palettes, but I don't have a good recipe here. Some colleagues like to sample colors from existing shots in animated feature films, which carry the right mood.   Learning from other people's mistakes Often it is very educational to look at bad examples. Here is an excellent illustration of this, which I came across a few days ago. Someone who is half-knowledgeable of the technical side of things, but very focused and hard-working is proudly presenting his cringy, sad, mediocre achievement. He has put countless hours developing to the minute details a bad, bland design, which should have been discarded as unappealing seconds after it had been sketched. https://www.reddit.com/r/adobeanimate/comments/1bh2d74/an_overview_of_my_rig/ It is pitiful and painful to watch, but is good to show to students what not to do. As teachers it is our duty to try and prevent them from making such obvious mistakes.   ... View more

It's a download problem then. Do you still have access to your mac? If so, go to Config and copy the files from there.   Otherwise, you can always contact Levi George ( @Levizilla  ). He will help you with the corrupted file.   ... View more

Manually rename ZXP to ZIP. Then extract the content (you don't need WinRar for that) and copy it into Config Commands and Tools, which is in: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Adobe\Animate 2024\en_US\Configuration   Detailed instructions are here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/dream-clean-up-plugin-installation/m-p/14260966#M370808   Read them again.   Also, you can contact the author.   ... View more

Hi mate,   @Interinactive and I had a discussion about the sound issues a few years ago. It may be of some interest: https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/the-audio-system-is-completely-broken/td-p/12417108   After that, he has posted multiple times about the problem in the prerelease forum, and all his reports and complaints have been ignored.   ... View more