Motion tween not working - CS5

I created a symbol, placed it on the timeline, made a copy and moved it to another place on the timeline, clicked in the middle and selected motion tween. It shows a motion tween on my timeline, but when I move the playhead, there is no animation, just a start state and an end state. Help, please!

should only be the symbol on that layer, there should be no other object, be careful, a single point can do not work
If you copy the symbol in the time line then use "Create Classic Tween"
to use "Create Motion Tween" just right click on the frame in the timeline (without copying anything in the timeline) and select "Create Motion Tween", position the playhead at the frame you want and move the position of symbol

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Motion tween not working when tested

I have a situtation trying to get a motion tween to work. It woeks in the time framw when I hit play but when I go to test it does not work. I can send file if soemone can help.

Ned,
was watching the below tutorial and desgined my text/tween similar on the page. On My page I am creating a Flash Portfolio of some work. all the files work in myloader on the stage. In the timeline, when I move the guide the text works. Also when I push Play it works. But when I go to test it does not.
The text is what I want to start as soon as the page loads. I do not have a code in action script because everthing i put deos not work. Hope you can help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXCGKmO2EBU
Tim

Motion Tween not working

What would cause a motion tween not to work. I am using
graphics for both keyframes and it is showing an arrow on my
timeline, but its not gradually making it bigger. Just small,
small, small, and then big all of the sudden. I tried doing the
same tween earlier on the timeline and it worked fine, so it is
something with this frame. I have all other layers hidden and I
don't see anything else on this layer. But if I did have something
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hcinderela wrote:
> What would cause a motion tween not to work. I am using
graphics for both
> keyframes and it is showing an arrow on my timeline, but
its not gradually
> making it bigger. Just small, small, small, and then big
all of the sudden. I
> tried doing the same tween earlier on the timeline and
it worked fine, so it is
> something with this frame. I have all other layers
hidden and I don't see
> anything else on this layer. But if I did have something
I think Flash would
> give an error message and a dotted line on the timeline,
so I don't think
> that's it. Any other ideas?
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Basic Motion Tween not working?

I created a graphic symbol in Illustrator and copied-and-pasted it into Flash. I placed a keyframe further in the Timeline and scaled the symbol down on that frame. I went back to the first frame and right clicked on it and chose to create motion tween, though nothing visually happened between the first frame and last one like it did in previous versions, and the the symbol did not not animate. What did I do wrong?
Thanks.

Adobe has made it a wild goose chase. For me, it only works if I don't have a second keyframe. Baffling, why should it behave so differently than classic tweening?!
People like me have been hitting their heads against the wall for years trying to get this to work. Absolutely asinine.
For the record and to repeat my huge gripe, it behaves nothing like classic tweening, where you define an end point and then "tween" between them. You can end up doing that, but you can't create the tween between two existing keyframes (even if they have the exact same single object in them).
So this is what's working for me now:
1 - Create a timeline layer with one single object in an initial keyframe (black dot indicates a keyframe). No more than one object can be tweened in one layer, but Adobe will not give you any userful feedback about this while you're working.
2 - On that layer, farther out in the timeline where there are no frames (what is the name for these "non-frames"?), right click where you want the tween to end, and select "Insert frame". (You'll have a black dot keyframe, a row of grey empty frames, and white box as a blank keyframe.
3 - Right click anywhere on the active part of that timeline and choose "Create Motion Tween", even though there is nothing to tween yet. After you do this, the span of frames should turn blue and the blank keyframe white box should disappear. Congratulations, you've created your first motion tween, but Adobe doesn't want you to know that. You need to actually go to individual frames and move the object around to get tweening to happen, as I outline in steps 4 and 5. Assuming your object is where you want it in the starting position, I would recommend going to the last frame to determine the final position next. Then you can do any number of middle positions (each frame can have a new position).
4 - (optional step, helps with positioning on the timeline) Scrub the timeline and find a frame where you want the trajectory of your object to change (at the very minimum, you'll want to move the object for one frame, otherwise there will be no motion)
5 - Move the object on the stage.
6 - Repeat 4 and 5 for as many frames as you want.
If you're not seeing motion paths that chart the motion, play with the little buttons on the bottom of the timeline, such as Onion Skinning. Lastly, just move the playhead left and right. If you're not seeing your object move, then blame Adobe some more, because this is far from immediately intuitive.

Motion tween- arrows not appearing, tween not working! please help?

I select where I want my motion tween to be, ctrl-click and select 'create motion tween'. It appears blue, and does not come up with an error message but no arrows appear like in the video's and the motion tween has not worked. Any ideas why? Also, I opened up a file that already had a motion tween in it (made by somebody else) to test it. I selected the motion tween and clicked 'remove tween' and straight away clicked 'create motion tween' again- to put exactly the same motion back into it, but the same thing happens- the selected area appears blue but no motion tween. Then, if I select it again, the option is 'remove motion' not 'remove tween' as before. A little complicated and could really use some help! Thanks!

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And this is the last frame:
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Motion menu not working

I'm frustrated. In the menu, under Properties/Motion tab, I select the video that I want to set up as my motion menu and it's not working. All I see is a static image of the video clip. The audio works but not the video clip set for motion. Please help.

But what I remembered is using part of a clip in Encore and I had a hell of a job to, anyway, unsuccessfully work the sound out ok. This is when I made the exact clip I needed in PP and imported it in Encore. Then I set the loop for ever. This way you can have this clip playing till someone chose what to wathch. I guess it's nice to have some movie starting automatically when there are not to many choices from them.
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Hi, I'm pretty much tearing my hair out with this one. I am
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great when I play it on the timeline but as soon as I test or
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Space Bar Hand Move & CMD-Space Zoom Not Working-CS5

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Hi,
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This is another common problem that's driving me up the wall:
- At 0 frames, I draw a blue square with no border.
- I insert a keyframe on the 10th frame, then I move the
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tool.
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or - convert it to a symbol forst - then create 2nd keyframe,
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Motion tween. You are making the mistake of using the wrong
tween for the wrong object or the right
tween for the wrong shape.
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Glitcher2000 wrote:
> This is another common problem that's driving me up the
wall:
>
> - At 0 frames, I draw a blue square with no border.
> - I insert a keyframe on the 10th frame, then I move the
square a short
> distance and stretch it with the free transform tool.
> - I create a motion tween between the two frames.
>
> Now by all rights, I should see the square gradually
move and stretch. But all
> Flash does is animate the motion of the square and show
the end result of the
> stretch. There's no transformation in between. How can I
fix this?
>

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Okay, so I think I might be able to help. I'm not a tech expert, but I had this issue today. It only started happening after I had an new hard drive put in, at which point a new internet security program was installed on my computer. Before this program was on my machine, this "temporary hand tool with the use of the space bar in Adobe CS products not working" problem did not occur. So, I figured it had to do with upgrading from OS 10.6 to OS 10.7 or with Webroot {the internet security program}, since those were really the only things that changed from pre- hard drive crash to post- hard drive crash. When I was poking around Webroot, I noticed there was a "Pause Secure Keyboard Entry" button to choose. Seeing that word "keyboard" was the lightbulb moment. Coupled with the comment above from Larry G. Schneider...
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I figured that my Webroot {which is meant to prevent malware and such} was overriding certain keyboard functions to prevent malware from detecting my keyed entries in place that could breech security on my machine.
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Anyway, just goes to show how much these forums help. Without this thread, I might not have thought twice about the "Pause Secure Keyboard Entry" button when I saw it.
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