Adobe Animate Basics III: An introduction to Symbols - Adobe Animate CC Tutorial

Today, we’ll take our first look at Symbols. There are three types of Symbols in Adobe Animate: Graphic Symbols, Buttons, and Movie Clips. I think that Graphic Symbols are the simplest to understand and the most useful Symbol for animation, so I’ll be focusing specifically on Graphic Symbols. This video covers what Symbols are, some basic use cases, and how to create and edit Symbols.
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00:00 Intro
00:28 What are Symbols?
01:32 Creating an empty Symbol
02:43 Library
03:15 Editing a Symbol
03:54 Converting a drawing into a Symbol
04:54 Outro
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Thanks, I was not sure how to edit symbols.

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Hey Devon, I need to animate some lines, but I want to animate in the path as if i'm actually drawing it, so not frame by frame but in 1 motion, is that possible?

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[@dumbcat]

my understanding (please anyone correct me if i am wrong) is that if you export an MP4 movie from Adobe Animate and animated Movie Clip symbols nested inside of other symbols will not play, try using Graphic symbols instead of Movie Clip symbols. Movie Clip symbols were designed to work with the Flash Player browser plugin, but browsers no longer use the Flash Player plugin.

[@gabrythegabber]

how to i import the animation symbols thing.

[@jameswdef318]

More than a year old video. Instructions still hold up. Thx.

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Hello my name is Benjamin, I have been having issues with symbols appearing in my output yet invisible in my adobe animate project..how can I fix that?

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king

[@poppycatz]

does anybody know how to seperate symbols from each other? Like on the timeline, everytime you duplicate a symbol on the timeline its not seperated but i want it to move differently than the first movement that was made of multiple symbols, but when you move a symbol in a different frame each symbol in the previous timeline moves aswell. Any idea why this happens? Help would be appreciated

[@samdavepollard]

you can right click on a symbol in the Library and Duplicate it; that gives you a copy, with a different name; you can edit that copy without affecting the original symbol; not sure if that answers your question

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[@J3ss4u]

This sounds kind of similar to clip studio object files, but I guess it'll be much more dynamic on AA

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How to unsymbol.. please tell me.

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My symbol keeps turning into a red or orange square. Please help me.

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