Editing animation

After you create a frame or a keyframe, you can move it elsewhere in the current layer or to another layer, remove it, and make other changes. Only keyframes are editable. You can view tweened frames, but you can't edit them directly. Edit tweened frames by changing one of the defining keyframes or by inserting a new keyframe between the beginning and ending keyframes. You use onion-skinning to display and edit more than one frame at a time.

To edit a frame or keyframe:

Do one of the following:

	To copy frames and their contents, select a frame or sequence of frames and choose Edit > Copy Frames.
	To place copied frames elsewhere in the animation, select the frame where the frames will be pasted or highlight a sequence of frames that the pasted frames will replace, and choose Edit > Paste Frames.
	To move frames and their contents, select the entire sequence of frames on a layer, and drag them to the desired location.
	To change the length of a tweened sequence, drag any keyframe left or right. To change the length of a frame-by-frame sequence, see Creating frame-by-frame animations.
	To insert new frames in an animation, choose Insert > Frame.
	To delete frames, select a sequence of frames and then right-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) within the selected frames, and choose Delete Frame from the context menu.
	To create a new empty keyframe, choose Insert > Blank Keyframe.
	To reverse an animation sequence, select the appropriate frames in one or more layers and choose Modify > Frames > Reverse. There must be keyframes at the beginning and end of the sequence.
	To convert a keyframe back into a frame, select the keyframe and choose Edit > Clear Keyframe. The existing contents of the frame are replaced by copies of the previous keyframe.