Drawing a Motion path

Hi fellows!! I would like to ask please, if there's any way which allow me to draw an arbitrary line with the pencil tool for instance, and then tell to flash to use this path as a motion path for an object on the stage by creating a motion tween. I know that this can be achieved by classic tween, but I look for a way to achieve the same effect but by using the new animation model of motion tween. Cheers!! Atar.

Thanks for your response, but I'm already know that I can edit a motion path after it was created. But this process is harder than to draw the desired path with the pencil tool. I look for a way to a priori draw the path as I want.
Cheers!!
Atar.
ב-24 ביול 2011, בשעה 17:04, kglad <[email protected]> כתב/ה:
after creating a motion tween you can edit the path so it matches what you want.
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