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Designing nested animation

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Designing nested animation

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- [Instructor] One of the more powerful aspects of symbols in Animate is that each symbol contains its own timeline, which can contain nested animated content. We'll now create some additional animation within our graphic symbol using the Asset Warp tool. So, here we are at frame 180, and as we can see we have a graphic symbol. It's an instance of MessageText. And if we double click, we can go and enter into the MessageText graphic symbol timeline, which currently only has a single frame. Let's go ahead and extend the frame span to three seconds. So I'm going to move down my zoom here in the timeline and go to frame 90, and then we'll insert frames up into the three second mark. There we go. Let's go back to frame one, the only key frame we have here. And what we're going to do is actually break this text apart into shapes. So to do that, all we need to do is select it and then do Control or Command B, or you can choose Modify, Break Apart. If we do that once, the text field is broken…

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