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More-
Complex
Animation Tasks
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You’ve learned to manipulate shapes and
symbols, animating them one at a time, in a
single layer, but Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
is capable of handling much more compli-
cated animation tasks. To create complex
animated movies, you’ll need to work with
multiple shapes or symbols and multiple
layers. You may even want to use multiple
scenes to organize long animations. In this
chapter, you learn to work with multiple
layers in the Timeline, stack animations on
the various layers to create more-complex
movement, and save animations as reusable
elements for easy manipulation—either as
animated graphic symbols or ...