[BNM] Flash Question: Moving objects on a stage.

[Paul Booth]

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On 04/04/2008, Yan_fit-pixels <yan at fit-pixels.com> wrote:
>
> Barry Prendergast wrote:
> > Okay,
> >
> > I've got some objects [movie clips] down on a stage in Flash. I want to
> move
> > them, but this only seems to be affecting a single keyframe and
> selecting
> > multiple keyframes doesn't seem to work? I want to move them so that
> they
> > still animate in the same manner, just in a different position. This is
> > wrecking my head completely!
> >
> > I'm very new at flash.
> >
>
> Barry,
> You must turn on 'Onion Skinning'.
> This is found to the right of the trash icon and looks like two small
> rectangles overlayed.
> Toggle this on and then you'll notice handles you can drag to cover a
> range of frames at the top of the timeline.
> Drag this to cover the relevant number of frames which will become onion
> skinned.
> Lock all other layers apart from the one containing your animation
> sequence.
> Click the stage and select all.
> Now you will have selected all objects in each frame of the animation
> and it may well look really messy.
> Have faith however, and position as you wish.
> Toggle off onion skinning now and all should be well.
>
> Let me know how you get on - flash is rather unforgiving and you need to
> be disciplined in your approach from the, quite literally, 'get go' to
> avoid its variety of pitfalls (don't get me started).
>
> Cheers
>
> Yan
>
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