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Last updated on
16 May 2021
- Adobe Animate User Guide
- Introduction to Animate
- Animation
- Animation basics in Animate
- How to use frames and keyframes in Animate
- Frame-by-frame animation in Animate
- How to work with classic tween animation in Animate
- Brush Tool
- Motion Guide
- Motion tween and ActionScript 3.0
- About Motion Tween Animation
- Motion tween animations
- Creating a Motion tween animation
- Using property keyframes
- Animate position with a tween
- How to edit motion tweens using Motion Editor
- Editing the motion path of a tween animation
- Manipulating motion tweens
- Adding custom eases
- Creating and applying Motion presets
- Setting up animation tween spans
- Working with Motion tweens saved as XML files
- Motion tweens vs Classic tweens
- Shape tweening
- Using Bone tool animation in Animate
- Work with character rigging in Animate
- How to use mask layers in Adobe Animate
- How to work with scenes in Animate
- Interactivity
- How to create buttons with Animate
- Convert Animate projects to other document type formats
- Create and publish HTML5 Canvas documents in Animate
- Add interactivity with code snippets in Animate
- Creating custom HTML5 Components
- Using Components in HTML5 Canvas
- Creating custom Components: Examples
- Code Snippets for custom Components
- Best practices - Advertising with Animate
- Virtual Reality authoring and publishing
- Workspace and workflow
- Creating and managing Paint brushes
- Using Google fonts in HTML5 Canvas documents
- Using Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Animate
- Use the Stage and Tools panel for Animate
- Animate workflow and workspace
- Using web fonts in HTML5 Canvas documents
- Timelines and ActionScript
- Working with multiple timelines
- Set preferences
- Using Animate authoring panels
- Create timeline layers with Animate
- Export animations for mobile apps and game engines
- Moving and copying objects
- Templates
- Find and Replace in Animate
- Undo, redo, and the History panel
- Keyboard shortcuts
- How to use the timeline in Animate
- Creating HTML extensions
- Optimization options for Images and Animated GIFs
- Export settings for Images and GIFs
- Assets Panel in Animate
- Multimedia and Video
- Transforming and combining graphic objects in Animate
- Creating and working with symbol instances in Animate
- Image Trace
- How to use sound in Adobe Animate
- Exporting SVG files
- Create video files for use in Animate
- How to add a video in Animate
- Draw and create objects with Animate
- Reshape lines and shapes
- Strokes, fills, and gradients with Animate CC
- Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
- Color Panels in Animate CC
- Opening Flash CS6 files with Animate
- Work with classic text in Animate
- Placing artwork into Animate
- Imported bitmaps in Animate
- 3D graphics
- Working with symbols in Animate
- Draw lines & shapes with Adobe Animate
- Work with the libraries in Animate
- Exporting Sounds
- Selecting objects in Animate CC
- Working with Illustrator AI files in Animate
- Applying blend modes
- Arranging objects
- Automating tasks with the Commands menu
- Multilanguage text
- Using camera in Animate
- Graphic filters
- Sound and ActionScript
- Drawing preferences
- Drawing with the Pen tool
- Platforms
- Convert Animate projects to other document type formats
- Custom Platform Support
- Create and publish HTML5 Canvas documents in Animate
- Creating and publishing a WebGL document
- How to package applications for AIR for iOS
- Publishing AIR for Android applications
- Publishing for Adobe AIR for desktop
- ActionScript publish settings
- Best practices - Organizing ActionScript in an application
- How to use ActionScript with Animate
- Accessibility in the Animate workspace
- Writing and managing scripts
- Enabling Support for Custom Platforms
- Custom Platform Support Overview
- Working with Custom Platform Support Plug-in
- Debugging ActionScript 3.0
- Enabling Support for Custom Platforms
- Exporting and Publishing
- How to export files from Animate CC
- OAM publishing
- Exporting SVG files
- Export graphics and videos with Animate
- Publishing AS3 documents
- Export animations for mobile apps and game engines
- Exporting Sounds
- Best practices - Tips for creating content for mobile devices
- Best practices - Video conventions
- Best practices - SWF application authoring guidelines
- Best practices - Structuring FLA files
- Best Practices to optimize FLA files for Animate
- ActionScript publish settings
- Specify publish settings for Animate
- Exporting projector files
- Export Images and Animated GIFs
- HTML publishing templates
- Working with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
- Quick share and publish your animations
- Troubleshooting
Use this article as a ready reckoner to download printable version of Animate keyboard shortcuts.
File
|
Mac |
Windows |
Import Image/Sound/etc... |
+ |
+ |
Export Movie |
+ + + |
+ + + |
Open as Library |
+ + |
+ + |
View
Action |
Mac |
Windows |
View movie at 100% size |
+ |
+ |
Show Frame |
+ |
+ |
Show All |
+ |
+ |
Windows
Action |
Mac |
Windows |
Show/Hide Library |
+ |
+ |
Comment selection |
+ |
+ |
Toggle between Edit Movie and Edit Symbol Mode |
+ |
+ |
Show/Hide Timeline |
+ + |
+ + |
Edit and modify
Action | Mac | Windows |
---|---|---|
Group | + | + |
Ungroup | ++ | + + |
Break Apart | + | + |
Paste in Place | + + | + + |
Duplicate | + | + |
Select All | + | + |
Deselect All | + + | + + |
Import Library | + + | + + |
Align Window | + | + |
Save As | + + | + + |
Scale and Rotate | + + | ++ |
Remove Transform | + + | + + |
Move Ahead | + | + |
Move Behind | + | + |
Bring to Front | + + | + + |
Send to Back | + + | + + |
Show or hide Transform Panel | + | + |
Narrower letterspacing (kerning) | + + | ++ |
Wider letterspacing (kerning) | ++ | ++ |
Miscellaneous actions
Action | Mac | Windows |
---|---|---|
Remove rotation or scaling from the selected objects | + + | + + |
Rotate the selection to 90 degrees left | + + | + + |
Scale and/or rotate the selection using numeric values |
+ + | + + |
Auto formats the editor code | + + | + + |
Show hidden characters | + + | + + |
suppresses highlighting of selected items | + + | + + |
Show or hide the rulers | + + + | + + + |
Show Frame Script Navigator | + + | + + |
Show or hide the tweening shape hints | + + | + + |
Show a smaller area of the drawing with more detail | + | + |
Show a larger area of the drawing with less detail | + | + |
Show or hide the Align panel | + | + |
Show or hide the Color panel | + + | + + |
Show or hide the Compiler Errors panel | + | + |
Open a new window in the front most simulation that is a duplicate of the active window | + + | + + |
Show or hide the History panel | + | + |
Show or hide Info Panel | + | + |
Show or hide the Library panel for this document | + | + |
Show or hide the Property Inspector | + | + |
Show or change a list of the scenes in the current movie | + | + |
Select colors from swatches and manage swatches | + | + |
Show or hide the animation timeline and layers controls | + + | + + |
Show or hide the drawing toolbar | + | + |
Increase onion skin marker size on both directions equally | + drag towards right/left | + drag towards right/left |
Shifts the entire range of onion skin markers to the right/left respectively. | + drag towards right/left | + drag towards right/left |