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FramesToSymbol

By FlashWip. Extremely rare! Found on Twitter. According to Anipedia, the extension is compatible with Flash 5 and up, but only for classic tweens in CS4 and up.

Original description

Archived from the author's site.

The Frames-To-Symbol Flash tool allows you to select a range of consecutive frames on multiple consecutive layers, and convert all of those selected frames into a single symbol. How many times have you animated something on your main timeline, only to look at it and think "I should have made this a symbol." As it stands, it's not too big a deal to turn it into a symbol… or is it?! Think about this. Heres the steps:

select the layers
copy the frames
create a new symbol
select the first frame of the new symbol
paste the frames
return to the original timeline that your animation was on
add a new layer
drag the new symbol onto the timeline
place the symbol exactly where the original animation content was
select the original frames or layers
delete the original frames or layers

A fast-and-focused Flash designer, a top notch Adobe trooper could do this in just over a minute. But humans don't work like that. I don't! My mind is full of ways to distract me. So let's say 2 minutes. And let's say I do this 3 or 4 times a day. It adds up.

But forget about that for a second, because there's hidden problem with this method. In Flash, if you select a number of frames to copy and one of those frames falls between the keyframes of a tween… when you paste the frames, your tween will be broken. Flash doesn't think to itself that it should insert a keyframe at the last position of your frame selection. So the process I indicated above suddenly gets a lot stickier and more time consuming.

And that's where the FlashWhip Frames-to-Symbol command comes in. This extension takes care of all of those problems. Instantly. On a full production day, I think this thing saves me anywhere between 3-15 minutes. Maybe I'm obsessed with the minutes and seconds, but I find that the more of these little tools I have at my disposal, the better.