How to Shift All Frames in Flash
Creating a Flash animation can be a painstaking process of inserting keyframes, filling them and adjusting tweens and timing. After all of that work, Flash does offer a quicker way to change the animation. Shift the frames, which hold all of the information that comprises the animation, much more quickly than the process of actually creating them. With a little clicking and dragging on the Flash timeline, rearrange a group of frames or all of them to give yourself more or less time.
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Instructions
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Open Flash. Click "Open" on the welcome screen. Browse to the Flash file with the frames to shift and double-click its file name.
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Enlarge the timeline area by clicking the line separating it from the stage and dragging the line down towards the stage. This will reveal more rows of the timeline. Skip this step if all rows of the timeline are already visible.
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Click once on the first frame in a row of a timeline to shift, such as the first appearance of a keyframe. The frame is highlighted in black. Press and hold down "Shift." Click the last non-empty frame in the row. The entire stretch between the two frames is now highlighted in black.
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Hover the cursor over the highlighted area and note the cursor has a small dotted rectangle attached to it. Drag the cursor to the right, taking the highlighted section of keyframes with it, to its new destination. Click anywhere on the timeline to release the highlights and set the frames.
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Capture all of the cells or rows within the timeline at once by widening the timeline so all rows are visible. Click once on the first keyframe of the top row. Press and hold down "Shift." Click once on every other first keyframe in the other rows. Click once on the last keyframe in each row; this highlights the entire area.
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Drag the cursor to the right, taking the highlighted area of keyframes with it, to their new destinations. Click anywhere on the timeline to release the highlights and set the frames.
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