Flash distinguishes tweened animation from frame-by-frame animation in the Timeline as follows:
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Motion-tweened keyframes have a black dot and intermediate tweened frames have a black arrow with a light blue background.
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Shape-tweened keyframes have a black dot and intermediate frames have a black arrow with a light green background.
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A dashed line indicates a problem with a tween.
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Single keyframes have black dots. Light-gray frames after a single keyframe contain the same content with no changes.
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An empty keyframe has a hollow black dot. |
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A small a indicates that the frame has been assigned a frame action with the Frame Properties dialog box.
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A red flag indicates that the frame contains a label or comment.
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