Motion tween adds new layer

I'm rather belatedly getting to grips with the new tweening system introduced in CS4. To be quite honest it's been a nightmare, but I'm starting to see its good points now.
One thing that still drives me crazy is when you create a new tween and Flash creates a new layer for you and puts the tween into it. Why? And how do I stop it? Over the course of a 10 min animation with a lot of tweens I could end up with hundreds of layers!
Thx.

It only creates a new layer when you don't have everything selected. This is because you cannot have the tweened and non-tweened element on the same frame (you can have non-tweened elements on the same layer, just not the shared frame - as with any tween).
If you don't want it to create a new layer, make sure that everything is selected on that frame and it will create it on the same layer.
Jen.
PS: This guide may help: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/motion_migration_guide.html

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