Simple Shape Tween always causes Flash to freeze (CS3)

Flash CS3 Professional is always freezing when I create a
simple shape tween. The steps that I follow to produce this problem
are as follows:
Draw a line
Bend the line into a curve.
Set a second keyframe on the timeline. (doesn't matter how
many frames between the two keyframes)
Use the direct select tool to reposition the point at one end
of the line.
Set the tween to Shape between the two keyframes.
Scrub the timeline.
Flash freezes.
According to the Windows XP Task Manager, the CPU is at 50%
with most of that going to flash.
Any ideas on how to get it working properly?
I can do the tween successfully without issue using Flash 8,
but CS3 freezes everytime. Our company won't let us upgrade to CS4
at the moment.

i can't duplicate that problem.
if the problem occurs when you scrub the timeline, don't
scrub it. test it in the test environment. you may be able get your
tween working doing that (even though that doesn't solve the
problem).

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Flash Freezes when doing simple Shape Tween

I tested this in Flash 5 before I brought it over to Flash
CS3 and am very concerned about the results.
I have an object that has been created on the stage and is
not a library item. I am creating an animation with no action
scripting that will be converted to a mov file and the end use will
be a video played on tv.
I have three keyframes, spaced out at 1, 5, and 10 frames.
Frame 10 has 10 nodes in the object, frame 5 has 8 nodes, and frame
1 has 7 nodes. I put my playhead on any frame in between the
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'Create Shape Tween'. Flash creates the tween, but when I attempt
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for over 5 minutes, making me 'force quit' the application.
Other aspects of this project are that I have several layers
(all of which are hidden [the 'eye' turned off] during testing),
contained in a folder. No other animation has been applied to any
other objects.
I am running an iMac with version 10.4.11 and have had no
other problems with the application.
Is there a fix I can download? This seems to be a programming
problem.
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More of less, I will have three seperate pages for the motion tween, mask effect and shape tween... would you make the seperately, in a different scene, as a symbol or on the same scene with the website.

It's not clear what you are after since you start talking about separate pages for the three things, and then ask about how best to put them together. If they are going to be separate they can't be together.
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Try to uninstall and reinstall Flash
*http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
You can find the latest Flash player versions for Firefox on this page.
*http://www.adobe.com/special/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html
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Shape Tweening - simple tween doesn't work

I'm thoroughly discouraged with Flash CS3 for the trouble I'm
having with this simple shape tween. Please tell me it's my fault
so that I can get this to work and not think that Flash is dumb.
I'm going from a small circle with a 1 px stroke to a round
cornered rectangle with the same stroke. It looked like it spun a
little during the morph so I added shape hints. I tried a few
different arrangements and none of them really worked. The most
annoying thing is when it looks right no the FLA and then the
export is working correctly - obviously some kind of program
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continuing around counter clockwise.
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They all either still spun funny or completely disappeared
during the morph.
All the hints appeared green and yellow for all arrangements
- no red hints.
In the past I've arranged them in what I would think to be a
random order with the hints appearing red and the dam thing would
actually work.
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Hi there,
The frames in question are the ones that were highlighted on the "J morph" and "K morph" layers, correct?
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Flash player freezes in Firefox

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I have read on the web that many other Firefox users in the Win7 environment have the same problem that Firefox freezes when Adobe Flash is installed and enabled. There are many reports that the freezing in Firefox can be solved by disabling protected mode in Adobe Flash.
Unfortunately, the method available for disabling protected mode will not work for myself or anyone else that works on computers issued and supported by my Fortune 500 company. The method of adding a line to the mms.cfg file requires users to have admin rights to editing files in the \windows\system32 directory structure. The company I work for has all computers without such admin privileges. Since there is no alternate for disabling protected mode, myself and all 4000 of my colleagues have no options for fixing this freezing problem.
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I'm sorry you're encountering these pauses. We work very closely with Mozilla and have been hard at work trying to solve all related protected mode issues since this security feature was released. We do have a few additional troubleshooting steps you might want to consider taking (in addition to disabling protected mode.) Please see this faq for details:
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Hi
(using Mac OS snow leopard)
I'm animating a character in Flash CS6: the character is composed of graphic symbols that make up the various body parts and have a dark colored Stroke that outlines each symbol. Some the symbols used for the limbs however have outlines where a section of the Stroke is colored to resemble the Fill color: in order to make the symbols appear connected smoothly (such as the arm symbol's Stroke is colored to resemble the torso's Fill color in the section where the arm would be anatomically be connected at the sholder).
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Greetings folks,
I don't know if my idea is possible but I've given it a try. It has not worked out as expected. Basically, I'm doing a multi-scene interactive animation. In this scene, I have a proto-planet hitting proto-earth. I was trying to have 2 spheres collide, and leave behind smooshed spheres. I'll be attaching 3 screenshots to show you my progress. Here is how I have it set up:
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1. In my experience, Flash merges extra points into one, and
breaks single points into multiple as necessary. how it picks which
ones to do this with has always been beyond me.
2. It seems to be completely by position, but only an Adobe
engineer could tell you how the algorithm works.
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I'm using shape tweens to morph one shape into another:
http://megaswf.com/serve/81955/
While I enjoy some of the choices Flash makes for animating the transformations,
I am wondering if you can control it in any way, or even have flash generate a different transformation.
I would also love to know of any suggestions you might have for making animated videos with shapes more dynamic.
That demo shows about what I know, which amounts to:
applying shape tweens for morphing;
and motion tweens for 2d spinning,
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Bless you!

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try it.
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