Adobe Animate

Adobe Animate Helpful Shortcuts (mac). Hover mouse over icons to see shortcuts.

Play = Return

Test Animation = Command + Return

Step forward and backward by a frame =  , and .

Extend Frame = F5

Create Keyframe = F6

Create a Blank Keyframe = F7

Selection Tool = V

Sub-Selection Tool = A

Classic Brush Tool = B

Paintbrush = Y

Pencil Tool = Shift + Y

Eraser tool = E

Zoom in = Z

Zoom Out = Z + Option

Pan around the Canvas = H (or) Spacebar

Rotate the Canvas = Shift + H

Video 2: Intro to Adobe Animate Tools

This second video focuses on the Toolbar in Adobe Animate. Particularly Brush, Pencil, Selection tool, SubSelection Tool, and the Pen Tool. This video also shows different techniques to quickly zoom in/out, pan, and rotate your canvas while working on your creations. 

0:00 = Properties Panel 

1:15 = Selection Tool & Free Transform Tool 

2:55 = Rectangular Tool & Explaining Fill & Stroke (This will help you understand the differences between the four brush types)

5:55 = Classic Brush & Fluid Brush (Fill Brushes) 

7:15 = Pencil & PaintBrush (Stroke Brushes) 

8:30 = SubSelection Tool 

10:35 = Pen Tool 

14:10 = Paint Bucket Tool 

14:55 = Zoom, Hand, and Rotate Tool. Navigating the Canvas

I forgot to mention in the video. Once You import your audio into Animate (import a .wav file)

1. Select the Audio Layer

2. Go to the Properties Panel > Sync > Change from "Event" to "Stream"

This will make it so you can scrub through your timeline, rather than having to playback f

Video 4: Using the Adobe Animate Timeline

This video goes over how to properly use the Animate Timeline. Particularly in concern to pose to pose animation. 

Important Shortcuts: 

F5 - Extend Frame 

F6 - Insert Keyframe (copies and pastes current frame) 

F7 - Instert Blank Keyframe

Timecode:

0:00 - Paint Brush 

2:47 - Timeline. Extending Frames & Creating blank Keyframes 

4:40 - Onion Skin 

7:45 - Looping 

8:20 - Advanced Onion Skin 

10:00 - Insert Keyframe 

11:30 - Removing Frames 

12:28 - Altering Timing of Existing Frames 

13:45 - Other techniques on adding + copying & pasting Keyframes

Video 6: Exporting Movies From Adobe Animate

If you wabt to export H264s from Animate, I go over all of that in the first 8 minutes. Animate is not setup intuitively, so this video shows how to avoid certain issues. 

The second part of the video goes over exporting PNG sequences, which is one possible way to get your projects into programs like After Effects for compositing. 

0:00- Export an H264 out of Animate 

8:20- Export a PNG sequence with a clear background 

13:00- Import your files into After Effects (I have better tutorials on this YouTube channel if you want to take a deeper dive into After Effects)

(If you still have problems with audio, it might be a good idea to take your animation into either After Effects or Premiere and then add sound back in there)

Video 8: Cleanup in Adobe Animate

In this very important tutorial, I go over my cleanup process in Adobe Animate. 

0:00- Intro & Setup 

1:30 - Pencil Tool (Object Drawing Mode) 

4:30 - Break Apart Button 

5:40 - Start Cleanup 

7:00 - Using the Oval Tool & Choose No Fill 

8:50 - Subselection Tool 

10:10 - Subselection Tool's Magnet Button 

10:45 - Pen Tool 

13:00 - Paint Bucket Tool (and Problem Solving) 

16:40 - Painting Shadows 

19:17 - Cleanup The Next Frame 

27:10 - Cleanup Following Frames 

34:30 - Paint Shadows (again) 

35:45 - Copy and Paste a Frame 

37:50 - IMPORTANT Show layers as outlines