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To convert an animation on the Stage to a movie clip symbol, follow these steps: 1. On the layer listing, select all frames in all layers containing the animation by clicking the first layer and pressing Shift while you click the last layer in the group. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl (Windows) or (Mac) and click additional layers. 2. On the Timeline, right-click (Windows) or Control+click (Mac) and choose Copy Frames to copy all the frames of the animation to the Clipboard. Alternatively, you can choose Edit.Timeline.Copy Frames. 3. With no objects selected (click off the Stage to be sure that no objects are selected), choose Insert.New Symbol. The Create New Symbol dialog box opens. 4. In the Name text box, type a name for the movie clip. 5. From the Behavior list, select Movie Clip as the type of symbol. 6. Click OK to close the Create New Symbol dialog box. Flash switches to symbol-editing mode so that you can edit the symbol. 7. Click the first frame of the Timeline to set the start of the movie clip symbol. 8. Choose Edit.Timeline.Paste Frames to paste the animation into the Timeline and create the symbol. 9. To return to the main movie and Timeline, choose Edit.Edit Document. 10. To delete the animation from the main movie (now that you ve saved it in a movie clip), select all layers as you did in Step 1 and choose Edit.Timeline.Remove Frames. You can delete the animation from the main movie because your Library now has a movie clip that contains that animation. When you choose the movie clip in the Library panel, you can click the small Play button to play the animation in the Library panel s window. Creating a symbol by duplicating a symbol One more way to create a graphic, button, or movie symbol is to duplicate an existing symbol. To duplicate a symbol, follow these steps: 1. Open the Library (choose Window.Library). 2. Select the symbol that you want to duplicate. 150 Part III: Getting Symbolic
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