Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 - Manual (Page 748)

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1. Create a Classic Tween.
2. Select any keyframe on the Timeline.
3. Go to Commands > Copy Motion as XML.
The Motion properties is copied to the clipboard as XML data, you can then use any text editor to work on the XML file.
Export Motion as XML
Allows you to export Motion properties applied to any object on the stage to an XML file that can be saved.
1. Create a Classic Tween.
2. Go to Commands > Export Motion as XML.
3. Browse to a suitable location where you want to save the file.
4. Provide a name for the XML file, and click Save.
The Classic tween is exported as an XML file at the specified location.
Import Motion as XML
Allows you to import an existing XML file that has Motion properties defined.
1. Select an Object any object on the Stage.
2. Go to Commands > Import Motion as XML.
3. Browse to the location, and select the XML file. Click Ok.
4. On the Paste Motion Special dialog, select the properties that you want to apply on the selected object.
5. Click Ok.
Create a motion guide layer
To control the movement of objects in a classic tween animation, create a motion guide layer.
You cannot drag a motion tween layer or inverse kinematics pose layer onto a guide layer.
Drag a normal layer onto a guide layer. This converts the guide layer to a motion guide layer and links the normal layer to the new motion guide
layer.
Note: To prevent accidentally converting a guide layer, place all guide layers at the bottom of the layer order.
Create classic tween animation along a path
Note: This topic is about working with older classic tweens . For help with using the newer motion tweens with motion paths, see Edit the motion
path of a tween animation .
Motion guide layers let you draw paths along which tweened instances, groups, or text blocks can be animated. You can link multiple layers to a
motion guide layer to have multiple objects follow the same path. A normal layer that is linked to a motion guide layer becomes a guided layer.
In this example, two objects on separate layers are attached to the same motion path.
Videos and tutorials
Video: Using a motion guide with a classic tween (Length = 5:19, Peachpit.com)
www.adobe.com/go/vid0125 . Note that this video is older and refers to classic tweens as “motion tweens”. This is because in older versions
of Flash, classic tweens were the only way of creating tweened motion.
Create a motion path for classic tweened animation
1. Create a classic-tweened animation sequence.
If you select Orient To Path in the Property inspector, the baseline of the tweened element orients to the motion path. If you select Snap, the
registration point of the tweened element snaps to the motion path.
2. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the layer name of the layer containing the classic tween and choose Add Classic Motion
Guide.
Flash Professional adds a motion guide layer above the classic tween layer and indents the name of the classic tween layer to show that it
is bound to the motion guide layer.
Note: If you already have a guide layer in the Timeline, you can drag a layer containing the classic tween below the guide layer to convert
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