This has been asked before. As far as I know these is no possibility to point the temp to a different location.   What @kglad has suggested seems to be the only option.   ... View more

EDAP Tools' Smart Magnet Rigs are the only pro-grade FK/IK rigging and posing system for Flash and Animate.   If EDAP Tools are good for tens of thousands of users all over the world, including many studios, schools and universities,  they should be good for your keen high-school students too.   The policy you describe is ridiculous and shameful. For the benefit of your students and the practical usefulness of your classes you should work on reversing this baseless policy.   ... View more

This seems like a reasonable explanation of the cause of the lag. Better internal structure is likely to alleviate the problem and your plan how to tackle it sounds good.   Best of luck!   ... View more

It is hard to tell without seeing the actual FLA. It may also depend on the available hardware configuration, but basically a head with nested symbols is a typical place where the issue will manifest.   Do tests in a separate file to not create more problems for yourself while trying to solve this one.   You can try to create a complete clone, using Duplicate Symbol Recursive, as otherwise if you only duplicate the head container, it will still share eyes, mouth, etc. with the original head. Then when going in and out of those shared assets they will still need to update everywhere and you will experience the lag.   A personal anecdote: Some time ago we had to abandon a good prototype for a revolutionary tool as we measured more than 10x worse performance in Animate compared to Flash. While Flash could handle up to 1 000 instances without lagging, Animate would be brought to its knees by 100-120 with the same set-up.   If you decide to share your FLA, I will have a look and may be able to provide better advice. However, I understand well that much of professional work is done under NDA and most people just can't share files.   ... View more

Keep an eye on the symbol Use Count in the library: Keyframes are counted as instances. Since the introduction of the so-called Advanced Layers and hidden wrapper movie clips, compared to Flash CS6, Animate is much more prone to severe lag due to high use count.   A way to deal with this will be to duplicate the symbol, which will reset the use count, but you will also need to take into account nested instances.   ... View more

What exactly do you want to achieve with this selection by color?   ... View more

Forget about Motion Tweens in character animation. Use Classic Tweens instead.   ... View more

Maybe you did not import the images as an Image Sequence? If you have Premiere related questions you may as well ask them in the Premiere forums, where there will be much more experienced users who can guide you.   Making a video out of an image sequence is a very simple task and can be done in any video editing program, After Effects, or even in Adobe Media Encoder.   ... View more

You can save Commands via the History panel. You can easily save 3 commands that change the looping property and give them shortcuts. Personally I use 1, 2 and 3 on the NumPad for Single Frame, Play Once and Loop.   For scrubbing through the content of a symbol with shortcuts, you can use Next / Previous Frame In Symbol.   ... View more

Hi Stephen,   Yes, Animate's default Duplicate Symbol will only duplicate the selected. This is quite handy in most situations, when not dealing with complex nested structures or when you only want to create a variation, using the same components. For example, if you have a container of a character and animate a walk cycle inside this container, but then you need to animate a run cycle, you can only duplicate the container and animate the run inside the duplicate. The two cycles will share the same body parts, which is great, because if you need to make a color adjustment or edit some other detail, you will only need to do it in one place and both with be updated.   Duplicate symbols recursive, which is an EDAP Tools plugin command, however, creates duplicates of the whole structure with all its nested parts also duplicates. In this case the duplicate and the original do not share common elements.   ... View more

Hi Stephen,   Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm glad to hear that you have come across our work and found it useful.   If you want to duplicate a symbol with all its nested content to make it completely independent, use Duplicate Symbol Recursive.   I always recommend Preston Blair's book to anyone who wants to get into cartooning or improve their understanding of construction and stylisation: https://animationresources.org/instruction-preston-blairs-advanced-animation/ This first edition is now in the public domain. You can download and print it for easy reference. A newer, expanded version is available to buy, which is also very good.   Thanks again and good luck with your projects!   ... View more

As far as I remember bugs with the 3D transformations have been reported multiple times. They are among hundreds of other bugs that have been plaguing Animate since the introduction of the so-called Advanced Layers.   ... View more

Only to clarify: Are you talking about this dialog where you copy the content of the AS Linkage Class field to the Symbol Name field? Others may know if it is possible to automate the process via a JSFL script that loops though the content of your Library.   ... View more

If I understood your post correctly you need to merge Symbols from multiple documents into a single document and you are facing Library item conflicts, because those Symbols do not have unique names.   If the names do not matter to you and you only want to be able to merge the content, I would suggest to use LB Rename to add a unique prefix to the symbols in each of your source documents. Then you will not have any conflicts when copy/pasting content. This will only require a couple of clicks per file.   ... View more

From day one after the name change the development of Animate has been characterized by impotence: lack of vision and skills.   ... View more

Do not use Motion Tweens on Parented Layers. There are many bugs with this combination and you can experience all kinds of unpredictable behaviour. If you intend to use Parenting, switch to Classic Tweens. (You may still come across bugs, but fewer.)   ... View more

Export > Export Movie... -- Choose PNG Sequence, 24-bit.   ... View more

That is because I don't have your fonts installed here.   ... View more

ps. In fact I did a test with the masked section and it exports fine: ... View more

In Google Drive, click on the sharing icon: Then choose "Anyone with the link" Test the link in an 'incognito' window. Then you will know if you can see the file when you're not logged in as yourself. You may need to post the link again here.   ... View more

Change the sharing option to "anyone with the link", so that people on the forum can see your files without the need to ask for permission.   ... View more

Years ago I used Flash to do the graphics for a few A1 posters. I had to export the bitmaps in sections and stitch them back together in Photoshop.   ... View more

Find FlashPlayer.exe in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Animate 2024\Players and copy it to a foldder which you create, so that it does not disappear the next time you update Animate. Associate your SWFs with this copy of Flash Player. Then they will open with it when you double-click them.   ... View more

Try to set display scaling to 100% at OS level. This may help.   ... View more