Distributing keyframes in frame by frame animation

I am doing a frame by frame animation of something I brought
in from Illustrator. I have 20 keyframes, each with one (slightly
different) symbol. I need this to move accross the screen.
How does one do it, I must be missing something, this must
come up all the time in frame by frame animation? I need the
symbols to be distribited exactly same distance apart.
I tried using the "align/distribute" feature the same way I
know it from illustrator, and it is just kind of working. I check
"edit all frames" make sure all the keyframes are selected and then
go to the align panel and distribute the centers of all symbols.
What goes wrong is this: it distributes them, but out of
order. Instead of putting frame 2 couple pixels to the right from
frame 1, it puts it right at the end where I would like the frame
#20. the middle then seems in the right order but beginning and end
are always mixed up.
Is the distribute feature the best way of doing this , and
why am I having this problem?

I think you need to go into a bit more detail here. Try to describe exactly what you want to do, and what kind of footage we are talking about here. I really have no clue what you are trying to do with the current description.
Are you trying to do stop motion animation? Make a cup move across a table or something like that? Then get iStopMotion.

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thank you so much for talking to me. I didn't realize
tweening applied to frame by frame animation. So I create a motion
tween btw each key frame?
What I don't understand is: I want to be able to take the
symbol in the last keyframe, drag it away from the rest of the
symbols that are all aligned, and then get them to distribute
automaticaly in their own keyframes. This is really done best
through tweening? I thought this would only worked if all the in
between steps were not keyframes.
When I select all the keyframes at once and tween them they
do not distribute.
But I am probably not doing this right, I don't have time to
experiment right now, I just wanted to say thanks.

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or something wrong with the way I am asking it? Mainly I want
to know if am am even using the right tool for this task. And why
the helll this is not working?
I am doing a frame by frame animation of something I brought
in from Illustrator. I have 20 keyframes, each with one (slightly
different) symbol. I need this to move accross the screen.
How does one do it, I must be missing something, this must
come up all the time in frame by frame animation. I need the
symbols to be distribited exactly same distance apart.
I tried using the "align/distribute" feature the same way I
know it from illustrator, and it is just kind of working. I check
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go to the align panel and distribute the centers of all symbols.
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thank you so much for talking to me. I didn't realize
tweening applied to frame by frame animation. So I create a motion
tween btw each key frame?
What I don't understand is: I want to be able to take the
symbol in the last keyframe, drag it away from the rest of the
symbols that are all aligned, and then get them to distribute
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But I am probably not doing this right, I don't have time to
experiment right now, I just wanted to say thanks.

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Creating a frame-by-frame animation since I cannot press F8 on my
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http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3it_firstflash_pt2_04.html
What do I click to make the changes in steps 4 -14.

There's also the drop down menu.
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> F8 is just a shortcut to convert an object into a symbol
on PC's. You can
> do
> the same thing by pressing Ctrl+clicking(right-clicking
on PCs) on your
> object.
> Then in the menu that appears choose Convert to Symbol.
>

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I am an experienced animator who is new to using Flash. I need to know how to add a motion tween to an animation that I already made frame-by-frame. The animation will be of a fish blinking as it swims across the stage. I already created the frame animation of the fish blinking, but now I want to motion tween the whole animation (not just one frame) across the stage. However, I cannot figure out how to do this. Is there a way to create a simple animation that uses frame-by-frame animation and motion tweens simultaneously?

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hi guys!
i really need help as soon as possible. i am currently
constructing a frame-by-frame movie containing different still
picture sequences with background music. my problem is, i have a
deadline in a week, and, well, i am half-way done. but that's not
the problem. it's that whenever i test my movie by publishing it,
as soon as the pictures come out, the entire picture just turns
red. then the pictures never come back. no matter how i publish it
and no matter what format, it turns red. there are a few animations
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don't turn red. i don't know ho to fix this and i don't know what's
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help!!!!
-OriO-

Hi,
This miskate happens to me when I break apart an image and I
delete the
unused item from the library. Do you do so?
Otherwise, I agree with Wolf Van Ween it may be a bug in
Flash or at least
your file.
Hope this help..
Yours,
Rafiq R. Elmansy
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"OriO_CheezecaKe" <[email protected]> wrote
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> hi guys!
>
> i really need help as soon as possible. i am currently
constructing a
> frame-by-frame movie containing different still picture
sequences with
> background music. my problem is, i have a deadline in a
week, and, well, i
am
> half-way done. but that's not the problem. it's that
whenever i test my
movie
> by publishing it, as soon as the pictures come out, the
entire picture
just
> turns red. then the pictures never come back. no matter
how i publish it
and no
> matter what format, it turns red. there are a few
animations before that,
like
> blinking lights and tweened texts, but those don't turn
red. i don't know
ho to
> fix this and i don't know what's going on... do you
think it's just my
computer?
>
> help!!!!
>
> -OriO-
>
>

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I would like to move some scripts that are on frames of an
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practices for this. The animation that I have includes scripts on
individual frames. These include the common stop, gotoAndPlay etc.
These scripts execute as the animation runs. I'm not sure how I can
do the same in a class. Maybe the best thing to do is to use
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sort of awkward. I don't know of any ready way to make a event
listener for a frame event. That would seem ideal.

Why impatient? I'd really like to find out what's going on.
The nature of what I'm doing requires that I get control of how and
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differently to daisyChain loadMovie as opposed to chaining
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Anyone willing to help me out and tweak my frame-by-frame
animation? For example, 2 characters are supposed to be going up a
hill and the hill should be spanning out so that it grows bigger
and bigger. And as the characters bounce up the hill, they should
be getting smaller and smaller (since they're going up the hill). I
just have a simple motion tween that doesn't have much of an
effect. Any suggestions?
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interested.
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Sorry I never got to this (very busy at work about to go on
vacation), but I did check it out so I have some suggestions:
1. Make the "hill" bigger initally. You really want to give
the impression that you are zooming out, so start bigger to make
the zoom more dramatic.
2. This goes for the jack and jill characters as well. Make
them bigger initally, and with each zoom out make them shrink more
and more. Currently the max to min sizes are not spread out enough
to emphasize the movement of the camera.
3. Don't do so much work on the main timeline. You should
have made more movieclips, one for each "scene". Your timeline is
too long and cluttered using your "do it all on the main timeline"
technique. If you look at professional sites, the main timeline is
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suggestion, if you like doing it your way then nevermind.
You seem to be on the right path. Just make the inital images
larger so that the zoom is more pronounced. There is a big
difference in the appearance of an object going from 500-50 percent
instead of just 200-100 percent.
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