Capturing mouse movement to define an animation path?

Hi All,
Does there exist a plugin for flash that would allow me to
define animations by capturing my mouse movements? I'd like to be
able to rough in my animation timing by selecting an object, then
dragging it around the screen at will while the software captures
the path of motion along with the timing of it. This would allow me
to keyframe a rough animation sequence really quickly because the
computer clock and my hand motion defines the placement of the
various keyframes. Is anything like this possible right now?
Thanks

i dont think so.. but why dont you use the pencil tool and
draw on the stage, make that layer a guide layer, the shorten the
distances of keyframes for your animation so it looks like it's
speeding up, widen them to look like its slowing down

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