Resizing animation and tween movie

hello forumers.
ive made a flash banner 1000x500 with lots of objects tweening etc etc photos fading in and out,and ive being told to resize the banner size to 800x300
but im having trouble when i do that,is there a way to get the everything that ive done into the 800x300 with out having to move all my objects around again and resizing each pic individualy,or do i have to start it from scratch again??
thank you.

If you're using classic tweens, try playing with the Edit Multiple Frames and Free Transform tools.
If you're using new motion, it's a known limitation and more manual for now -- refer to this post: http://flashthusiast.com/2009/10/06/scaling-and-moving-new-motion-tweens-in-flash-cs4/

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