- [winOS] Animate crashes on importing PSD file containing text.
- [winOS] Animate crashes on creating a new document if the application is installed on a network location.
Last updated on
1 March 2024
- 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
We heard you! We've been working hard at fixing the issues you reported to us. Here's a list of issues we fixed in the latest release of Animate.
Animate 2024 (version 24.0.1)
- [macOS] Animate cannot open files in the 'Adobe Animate Document' error appears upon opening the file with bitmap warped object via Open with option.
Animate 2024 (version 24.0)
- "An error occurred" while opening the old binary FLA files.
- Artifacts appear on the transparent area of the layer if there is an overlapping content in the layer below upon importing a psd file.
- Unable to import color files (.clr) into swatches panel.
- 'Import as a single bitmap image' setting imports only the bottom most layer when importing a psd file into Animate.
Animate 2023 (version 23.0.2)
- [macOS] Save As dialog gets dismissed upon using Arrow keys.
- Warped asset appears blank on saving and reopening the file if the warped asset was placed inside a symbol.
- Application goes to non responding state upon quit when the system is offline.
Animate 2023 (version 23.0.1)
- Animate crashes on copy-pasting text from Illustrator to Animate.
- Bone length is getting altered on dragging the bone continuously.
Animate 2023 (version 23.0.0)
- Warped object disappears upon copy pasting it on a different document.
- Importing fla file into After Effects is not working.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.8)
- [winOS] Your Adobe Flash Player version is too old error on running Projector files.
- Animate is turning into non-responding mode upon copying all layers from specific files.
- Duplicated symbols are not placed inside the Duplicated Items Folder in the Library panel
- Auto keyframe does not honor the temporary transform point while rotating or scaling if the selection is made across layers.
- Flexi bone has sharp deformation for objects that are small.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.7)
- [macOS] Files in the network folder become hidden and the error occurs on trying to save a file opened from a shared network drive.
- [macOS] Eyedropper does not pick up the correct color from a group or a graphic.
- Child object gets rotated on reopening the file if the parent object was rotated before parenting.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.6)
- [macOS] Error opening files created in older versions of Flash Professional.
- [macOS] Missing workspaces, files error after launching the application with fresh preferences after macOS 12.3.1 update.
- Incorrect test movie and video output if parenting is used inside a graphic symbol with a camera on the main timeline.
- Parenting structure breaks upon copy-pasting keyframes with rigging in it.
- Compiler error on publishing the file with any of the actions script reserved keywords in the layer name.
- Import of SVG files with an embedded PNG is failing.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.5)
- [winOS] Application turns black after using it for a long time.
- [winOS] Actions panel is not getting closed on pressing F9 key.
- [macOS] Color picker doesn't work in Gradient Color Panel, Find and Replace panel.
- [macOS] clr and act color files exported failed to append the file extension hence unable to import such files.
- Video export or Publishing takes too long and the output doesn't match with the stage if layer effects are applied inside the nested graphics.
- Font Name, Font Style, Stroke Style and Width Profile dropdowns are not clickable or failed to open unless the application is relaunched.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.4)
- [macOS] Sound not playing in Library panel and Timeline playback on Mac OS 11 & 12.
- [macOS] Application goes to non responding state when importing a h264 video or opening a file containing h264 video.
- Application crashes on scrolling the font list after adding a web font.
- Stroke appearances are not retained while converting it to a rigged object.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.3)
- [winOS] Inserting Keyframes progress dialog appears on inserting a keyframe or a blank keyframe.
- Convert each to keyframes breaks the pose in the last keyframe in shape tween.
- Previous keyframe objects are misplaced while using auto keyframing in a parenting setup.
- Unable to move symbols in multiple layers together in a motion tween.
- Unintended new keyframe is introduced when editing a symbol with the Free Transform tool in a tween span.
- Playhead jumps in the Timeline panel while expanding or collapsing the Motion editor view
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.2)
- [winOS] Context menu with options like Run Script, Format Code, Comment selection etc do not appear in script documents.
- [winOS] Actions panel is not getting closed on pressing F9 key.
- Objects on the child layer retain the tween even after removing the animation in the parent layer when Propagate Scale, Skew, and Flip is ON.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0.1)
- Layer gets unparented in Auto Keyframe workflows.
- Parenting in motion tween glitches if rotation is applied.
- Child object moves on changing the transformation point of a parent object.
- [winOS] Animate crashes on publishing a file with corrupted sound.
- [winOS] Animate crashes on opening a file from a location that requires administrator privileges.
- The code block is not shown properly in the actions panel and script documents.
- Curly braces do not auto close in the Actions panel.
- [winOS] Autocomplete does not work in the Actions panel.
- [winOS] Keyboard shortcut for Find and Replace, Comment, and Uncomment Selection is not working in the Actions panel.
- [macOS] Keyboard shortcut to Hide Animate does not work when in script document.
Animate 2022 (version 22.0)
- Maximum call stack size exceeded error in Chrome for long frame-by-frame animations.
- [macOS] shift-Tab does not move the text back to the left after a tab is used in script documents.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.9)
- Sound files other than MP3 are not getting imported in Animate.
- Text become invisible for some fonts when editing it in Japanese, Chinese and Korean language.
- Application crashes on quitting if it was launched by opening a file.
- Some assets are not visible in Assets panel unless the application is relaunched.
- [macOS] Export video/media does not launch Adobe Media Encoder 15.4.
- [macOS] Overwriting a word selected by double click in code editor is not working.
- [winOS] Some of the keyboard shortcuts are not working when the focus is in code editor.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.8)
- The size of the object changes and the movement of the object is incorrect while moving it using arrow keys in the presence of the camera.
- Frame selection/highlight is not clearly visible in the Frame Picker panel.
- First and Last Frame number is not correct when converting a Movie Clip to Graphic.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.7)
- Variable Width Profile is not getting retained on reopening a file.
- Paint Selection and Paint Fills Only modes are not working inside Drawing objects and Groups.
- Opening or closing a large fla document takes a long time and consumes almost double the memory.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.6)
- Fixed bugs related to Paint Fills/Paint Selection brush modes.
- Security bug fixes related to out of bounds read and UAF vulnerability which could lead to sensitive memory data and arbitrary code execution by opening the malicious file.
- Crash during installation of Animate to a directory having Capital Cyrillic character has been fixed.
- Fixed drawing related bug after performing “Convert Layers to Symbol” action.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.5)
- PNGs generated out of Texture Atlas exporter JSAPI is not transparent.
- Animate crashes on trying to change the first frame in Frame Picker panel inside a group.
- Application crashes on adding a new layer via keyboard shortcut while renaming a layer.
- Undo of Brush modes such as Paint Selection and Paint Inside is not working on Drawing objects.
- Tween is getting broken in the output for object on guided layer with Camera.
- [winOS] Color Set and Color Table files ignores the file extensions on exporting a color swatch.
- Copy-pasting nested movieclips from one document to another doesn't function correctly.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.4)
- Keyboard shortcuts for different Gap Size options are not working.
- [macOS] Animate color set and color table files are not recognized in Add/Replace color workflows.
- Compiler error on test movie if camera API's are used and one of the layer name is "stage".
- Applying rig on objects with different orientation than the source is not getting applied correctly.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.3)
- Export Image and Export Animated GIF dialog appears truncated on small displays.
- A call to importPublishProfileString() jsapi after modifying the doc apis crashes Animate.
- A call to addItem() jsapi to add symbol after changing the active doc crashes Animate.
- Animate crashes on test movie a file with an invalid sound envelope.
- Animate goes into non responding state on moving the points in the envelope editor with both left and right mouse clicks.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.2)
- Paint Bucket with Close Small Gaps mode leads to not responding state while using Stylus Pen to drag fill.
- [macOS 11] In the Properties panel, Stroke style and width dropdown menus are distorted.
- [macOS 11] Bitmap, Linear and Radial Gradient swatches look distorted.
- [macOS 11] Brush Library panel appears distorted.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0.1)
- [macOS] Application crashes on launch if one or more corrupted font is installed on the system.
- Arrow keys to nudge the selection do not function as intended when in Edit Multiple Frames mode.
- Keyboard shortcut to increase or decrease classic brush size does not update it live.
- Dragging frames across layer folders do not work in Timeline panel.
- Copy pasting objects, frames, and layers take long time in complex projects.
- Animate crashes on using envelope transformation multiple times on a drawing object.
- Bitmap warped object disappear upon reopening the file if it is part of a classic tween span.
Animate 2021 (version 21.0)
- [macOS] Brush strokes are skipped while fast sketching.
- Brush lag when drawing on a zoomed-in stage.
- In Windows Ink mode, Temporary tools flicker or does not work.
- Matte option is disabled in Export Image and Export Animated GIF dialogs.
- Stage colored fills turn transparent when Transparent GIFs are generated.
- In Canvas document, Compression settings within the Bitmap properties dialog are disabled.
- Animate does not respond while processing the Layer thumbnail previews in AI import dialog.
- CPU usage is high when Animate is in idle state, or in the background.
- While using Save as option, Auto Recovery file is not removed.
- Auto-recovery is triggered during Timeline playback.
- Zoom-in and zoom-out options do not function accurately in nested symbols.
- Flip transform does not function accurately when both parent and child objects are selected.
Animate 2020 (version 20.5.1)
- Viseme frame picker does not open in the Lip sync dialog.
- Static text randomly publishes as dynamic text causing display issue in Canvas output.
- Cannot change the color from the Color panel for text, primitive, or drawing objects.
- Stream audio of lengthy timelines is out of sync in Canvas output.
- While copying three or more keyframes, extra frame is created.
- Eraser tool lags in Auto keyframe mode.
- Art brush extension does not create a group after turning fills from stroke.
Animate 2020 (version 20.5)
- Texture/spritesheets is not generated for non-default image settings in canvas publishing,
- Canvas output does not play in IE11.
- Blend-modes against stage background are not honored in canvas output.
- At the time of canvas publishing, mask effect generates frame by frame output and increases the JS output file size.
- Export time for HTML5 Canvas is slow.
- In the preview mode, Timeline playhead stalls at random frames.
- Application frame disappears momentarily while modifying workspace or switching between Home and Animate tabs.
- Application crashes on quitting fl.quit() after running it for a long duration.
- When moving the tween span in a Layer parenting setup, child object changes its position.
- Use four-digit number while naming SVG sequence export.
Animate 2020 (version 20.0.3)
- Brush stroke disappears while drawing inside a new group.
- Empty trash folders are created at times while opening files.
- In Properties panel, when multiple Graphic instances are selected, start frame for Loop cannot be modified.
- FPS drops when the cursor hovers over timeline or stage during Timeline playback.
- Skew does not function correctly when applied on a motion tween symbol.
Animate 2020 (version 20.0.2)
- Font style field appears disabled in Catalina.
- Camera and layer effects applied on the first frame are not retained in the video output.
- In the Tools panel, changing the Fill or Stroke color requires an extra click.
Animate 2020 (version 20.0.1)
In this release, we fixed some stability issues to offer you a better product stability.
- Incorrect blend mode appears on bitmap while switching between nested timeline and scrubbing timeline.
- In HTML5 Canvas published output, symbol instance's Name property is not set in JS.
- Drawing tools draw at an offset if Animate is launched on a secondary monitor and the secondary display scale factor is different from the primary display.
- In the published output, HTML5 Components appear at the beginning of timeline.
- Items in Library panel do not have a compact view.
- Exporting a frame to jpg/png also exports hidden layers to the image.
- For multiframe timeline, HTML5 Components do not load properly in output.
Animate 2020 (version 20.0)
- Rotation and skew are not smooth while tweening.
- Symbol jitters or moves at end of tween.
- Polygon selection tool is not working in EditInPlace mode of symbols.
- Easing property does not get updated in the output if it is modified after the canvas is published.
- Shape tween does not work in the canvas output when gradient colors are used.
- Unable to select a shape-tweened stroke inside graphic symbol.
- library.addItemToDocument() api adds item at incorrect position on hidpi monitor.
- App crashes on texture publishing a canvas file if the file uses European decimal format.
- App crashes on export png image via Export Image dialog or via JSAPI in specific scenario.
App crashes on texture publishing a canvas file if the file uses europian decimal format.
- Maskee layers are attaching to the camera in the canvas output.
- Keyboard shortcut set for one tool in a group is impacting other tools also in the group (lasso, polygon, magic wand, and more).
- Provide keyboard shortcut for black & white color and swap colors.
- <XML.UI> Color Chip element cannot receive its value on initialization.
- Compiler errors in case publishing swf for multi-scene document if some of the scenes use layer effects or camera but not all the layers.
- Few strokes are missing in SVG exported for character animator.
- Folder in library disappears after paste.
- Timeline playback FPS drops if certain tool is active.
Animate 2019 (version 19.2.1)
The 19.2.1 update for Animate fixes crash issues when performing paste in place inside a drawing object or group.