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Creating nested animations

Creating nested animations

One of the neat effects that you can create in Flash is the effect of a camera moving or zooming in and out. In this movie we will take a look at how to do that. The first step is to take your animation and nest it inside of a symbol. So I am going to select all of my frames below the border layer. To do that I'll deselect all my frames and then click on the frame 1 of the logo layer and drag all the way down into the end of my animation to select all the rest of my frames. Now I'll cut these frames by right- clicking and choosing Cut Frames. Now I'll delete every layer except for the border and the logo layer. I'll change the logo layer's name to animation. Now let's insert a new blank symbol to paste the animation. Insert > New Symbol. I'll name this Animation and then paste the animation by right-clicking the first frame of Layer 1 inside of the Animation symbol and then choosing Paste Frames. So there is my animation. I will go to Scene 1 on the main timeline and then scroll to…

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