Adobe Animate Basics IV: Symbols and the Frame Picker - Adobe Animate CC Tutorial

Hello everyone! I highly recommend watching Introduction to Symbols first to fully understand what's going on here. This video dives deeper into instances and the connection between the main Timeline and the Timeline inside the Symbol. I also show off the Frame Picker, a tool designed specifically for Symbols.
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Videos I mentioned
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Introduction to Symbols
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Classic Tweens
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Motion Tweens
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Timestamps
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00:00 Overview
00:31 Main Timeline vs Symbol Timeline
01:03 Creating a blink animation
02:13 Controlling Symbol playback
03:37 Setting the First Frame
04:46 Editing an Instance vs Editing the Symbol
06:20 New Keyframe = New Instance
07:29 Frame Picker
09:19 Summary
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Thanks Hannah, I'm glad you're finding it helpful! That's a very difficult question... animals, maybe? But I also like playing with secondary animation (eg. scarves, tails, etc) 🤔

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great tutorial! for anyone having difficulty, make sure your symbol is set to Graphic! not Movie Clip, or Button. your animation wont use additional frames unless its set to Graphic.

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I do not understand . It will be not save and work as like illustrator file. Work page save and after few hours may i work in this page? Thanks .

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can u tell me how to convert layers to symbol ?

[@YellowDogAnimations]

Hi i just did a scene where i did lip sync and moved the eyebrows and pupils. If i add a key frame further down how do i continue to change it without messing up the past one thanks

[@devonkong]

Not sure about your situation specifically, but you'll need to create a new keyframe for every new drawing. And look into 'synchronising' your Symbol

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Can you save the key frames in frame picker for future projects?

[@devonkong]

Yes, you can reuse Symbols between projects 💪🏼

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Its good and all but how can someone sync and compose a 3 min vid on this complex timeline setting?

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when we swap symbols there is no search option!

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Is it possible to make the dog with different color for using this technique ?

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Do you mean you want every instance of the dog to be a different colour?

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How to save and organize sympols?

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Symbols are saved automatically in the Library, and you can organise them in the Library Panel Maybe I should make a video about this 👀

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