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1. Re: Motion Tween grayed out
Ned Murphy Oct 12, 2012 5:45 PM (in response to Rayven Wolfe)Have you tried right clicking the frame where the symbol is, and is the symobl by itself in that frame?
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2. Re: Motion Tween grayed out
Rayven Wolfe Oct 12, 2012 6:20 PM (in response to Ned Murphy)I have a layer named "P" and all it contains is my symbol-ized letter P. Atop that, I have a guide layer named Guide:P. In the layer with the symbol P, I have right clicked on the layer name area, frame 1 containing the initial keyframe, and in several areas along the timeline from 1 to 30. When clicking on the timeline frames, I have the option for Classic Tween, but motion and shape are both gray.
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3. Re: Motion Tween grayed out
Ned Murphy Oct 12, 2012 6:54 PM (in response to Rayven Wolfe)You want to click on the frame that would start the tween. If you have the option for a Classic Tween take it.
I have no experience with the new Motion Tween (and no driving desire to gain any either) so I cannot say if it doesn't apply to your situation such that its being grayed out is correct.
I am sure that a shape tween is not a valid offering since it can only be applied to raw graphics/shapes, so it being grayed out is correct.
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4. Re: Motion Tween grayed out
Rayven Wolfe Oct 12, 2012 8:21 PM (in response to Ned Murphy)Yes, I did realize shape tweening shouldn't be showing up. I just don't understand why motion tweening isn't. And I've seen a lot of other folks who stick to classic tweening. It just seemed to me that since I just want to move a letter along a path, a motion tween would be a perfect solution for such a thing. I don't understand why there seems to be such vehement dislike for the "new" tweening because I have no basis by which to compare any of this.
I went ahead and used the classic tween and got it to mostly do what I wanted. Now I have to hope the instructor doesn't take points off for not demonstrating motion tweens.
Thanks for your rapid reply.
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5. Re: Motion Tween grayed out
Ned Murphy Oct 13, 2012 5:25 AM (in response to Rayven Wolfe)You're welcome. One problem with the new tweening (hearsay on my part) is that they are not intuitive to use. With the classic tween it is a straightforward matter of start frame, end frame, and done, and it serves most purposes folks have for timeline-based tweening.
It is possible the approach you took is not the way to go when creating motion paths for the new tweens. Here's a link to a video that demos using the new tween with a motion path. It appears the path is not done the same way you attempted if you have the path on a separate layer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-BIlFiy_DY
So it is looking more like the grayed out options were correct.
I would hope that if you showed your instructor the problem you were having you wouldn't get any disfavor shown for your solution, especially if you were taught to do what you were trying to do... and it might even teach your instructor something.


