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If I have a Flash project in which there are multiple movie clips animating, each with its own timeline and other embedded movie clips, again, each with its own timeline, how can I merge everything so that I end up with a single timeline and a single layer?

If Flash doesn't support this, maybe there's some other way it can be done? I'm thinking that I would need to do something like calculate the intermediary tween values and somehow create keyframes with those values, then break everything apart and only animate the correct parts from the calculated keyframe values...

rid
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You need to select the frames you need from each MovieClip and copy them (CMD/Ctrl + Alt + C) then paste(CMD/Ctrl + Alt + V) them into a new empty MovieClip which will be your single timeline.

You might need to trim some frames after pasting (select then Shift+F5) and manipulate(move, scale, etc.) multiple frames in the new single timeline. For that you have the Edit Multiple Frames toggle:

edit multiple frames

Bare in mind that you might need to lock layers that you don't need to work with when editing multiple frames. Also, once you have Edit Multiple Frames toggled and selected frame range, you should also select all(CMD/Ctrl+A) all the objects on those frames, if they're not already selected so that you move all the single elements of all the frames at once (without breaking the animation).

George Profenza
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Change your animation containers type from MovieClip to Graphic. In this case you can see its animation outside, in parents