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Timelines and Animation
Copy and paste a motion tween
You can copy the tweened properties from one tween span to another. The tweened properties are applied to the new
target object, but the location of the target object is not changed. This allows you to apply a tween from one area of the
Stage to an object in another area without repositioning the new target object.
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Select the tween span that contains the tweened properties you want to copy.
2
Select Edit > Timeline > Copy Motion.
3
Select the tween span to receive the copied tween.
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Select Edit > Timeline > Paste Motion.
Flash applies the tweened properties to the target tween span and adjusts the length of the tween span to match the
copied tween span.
To copy a motion tween to the Actions panel or use it in another project as ActionScript®, use the Copy Motion as
ActionScript 3.0 command.
Copy and paste motion tween properties
You can copy the properties from a selected frame to another frame on the same tween span or a different tween span.
The property values are added only to the selected frame when the properties are pasted. The copied property values
of color effects, filters, and 3D properties are only pasted if the tweened object at that frame has the color effect, filter,
or 3D properties already applied. 2D position properties cannot be pasted onto a 3D tween.
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To select a single frame in a tween span, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) the frame.
2
Right-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) the selected frame and choose Copy Properties from the
context menu.
3
Select a single frame to receive the copied properties by Ctrl-clicking (Windows) or Command-clicking
(Macintosh) the frame.
The destination frame must be in a tween span.
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To paste the copied properties into the selected frame, do one of the following:
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To paste all of the copied properties, right-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) the selected frame of
the target tween span and choose Paste Properties from the context menu.
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To paste only some of the copied properties, right-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) the selected
frame of the target tween span and choose Paste Properties Special from the context menu. In the dialog box that
appears, select the properties to paste and click OK.
Flash creates a property keyframe for each of the pasted properties in the selected frame and reinterpolates the motion
tween.
Convert a tween span to frame-by-frame animation
You can convert a motion tween span to frame-by-frame animation. In frame-by-frame animation, each frame
contains separate keyframes (not property keyframes) which each contains separate instances of the animated symbol.
Frame-by-frame animation does not contain interpolated property values. For more information, see “
Frame-by-
frame animation
” on page 220.
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Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Macintosh) the tween span you want to convert and choose Convert to Frame
by Frame Animation from the context menu.
Updated 5 March 2009
