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An older way of creating animation in Animate
What is Classic Tweens
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Classic tweens require a separate motion guide layer to animate along a path.
Lets you frame your animations
What is the Camera tool
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The size of your stage becomes the frame of your camera view.
It allows objects to be linked and move with each other
What is Layer parenting?
You make a classic tween by...
What is selecting the frames and clicking the add classic tween button above the timeline?
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Classic tweens are not supported in the motion editor.
This tool lets your draw the guide lines for motion in a classic tween
What is Pencil tool
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You can only have one camera layer, and it is always at the top of all your other layers.
It determines the parent and child relation between the frames.
What is hierarchy
Lets you morph between Merge Shapes and Drawing Objects
what is shape tweens?
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They don't support 3d rotations.
This tool lets you distort objects
What is Asset Warp tool
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You cannot rename the camera layer.
To remove or change the parenting you applied
What is left clicking the dark grey area to the right of the layer’s name in the parenting view
What can shape tweens shift
They can tween any aspect of a shape tween, even variable widths of a shape’s stroke.
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They are not separated onto their own tween layer.
This tool lets you add depth to your camera movement and layers
What is Z-depth tool
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You can’t add objects or draw in the camera layer, but you can add classic or motion tweens to the layer, which allows you to animate the camera motion and camera filters.
How do you apply layer parenting
You layer parent by pressing the parenting view and dragging the coloured rectangles in the right order.
What helps you if your shape tweens look uncontrollable.
Shape hints can refine the shape changes.
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Classic tweens are timeline based and not object based. Meaning all editing has to be done in the timeline and not on stage.
This tool shows the contents of the frames before and after the currently selected frame
What is Onion Skin
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When the camera tool is selected, you cannot move or edit objects in other layers. Disable the camera by selecting the selection tool or by clicking the remove camera button at the top of the timeline panel.