Classic Tween Problem!

So I made a frame by frame animation of a guy waving and wanted to make the animation a little smoother. So I highlighted all of the frames and clicked create classic tween. But then I get a warning saying "Motion tweening will not occur on layers with ungrouped shapes or on layers with more than one group or symbol. Can anyone help me with this? Or please tell me a way to make my frame by frame animations smoother?

Tweening can only involve one object. If you happen to have multiple separate objects in the frame(s) you are trying to tween it will fail. To do what I think you are trying to do you would need to have the objects being tweened on their own dedicated layers or as sublayers of other objects.
For instance, if you have an arm waving where the hand also moves relative to the arm, then you would want to have the hand be a movieclip within the arm timeline that runs separately from the arm but also remains positioned on the wrist.
To do it with the frame by frame approach you would need to involve more frames into the animation and adjust the frame rate to compensate.

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