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Let's imagine the following situation: you have two already ready animations and want put one inside the other, without having to redo all the arduous work of mounting the two GIFS, frame by frame. Beyond of that, you may also want to insert some text, straight and without special editions (like shading and others), inside that new animation and, again, don't want to redo all the previous work barely to put this text on the exact place in each frame.
Be happy, you are a lucky guy! With the Animation Shop is possible to do that with barely some mouse clicks.

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Open the AS3 and the two animations that will be utilized in our exercise - we will prepare them to be connected one to the other. The bigger one, that is going to receive the other one, is probably ready for use, with no needs of adjustments. The one that will be put inside the bigger, will probably need to have its size reduced. If it happens, select the animation and, in the menu bar, click "Animation/ Resize Animation".
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In the dialogue window, set the new size for the smaller animation, in the interest of your work. See the graphic:

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The next step will be to adapt the smaller animation to fit inside the bigger: both should have the same number of frames, if you want to maintain an absolute control on the final results. If the smaller gif has more frames than the bigger, in the moment that you will unite the two gifs, the program will add new frames to the bigger gif to adapt it to the smallest one (with more frames). However, if the smaller gif (that one your are going to paste inside the other) has ten frames, and the bigger gif has thirty frames, the smaller will perfectly fit inside the biggest gif: the frames will normally duplicate itself when pasted. Beyond that, all the frames from the smaller animation will assume the "Time" properties of the frames from the biggest animation. Therefore, overhauls your GIFs, counting its frames and withdrawing or increasing those of your interest - after all, you are the director of that Film... Do your work!
At this point you will have the two animations already prepared and, each one of them with all its frames selected (click the animation and press the keys CTRL+A to select all the frames).
Look in the graphic below, the moon used in the animation on top of this page, after been resized, and with all its frames selected:

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Now the great moment: how put an animation inside the other, and obtain a perfect result, in every frames? The secret is in the command "Propagate Paste". In the menu bar click "Edit/ Propagate Paste". That action will maintain activated the function of Propagate Paste and will be deactivated only if you make the inverse way, by clicking again in the command. But what does the Propagate Paste? It simply propagate into all the frames selected, everything that you had copied and now you are pasting. See the graphic:

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In the tools bar, there are a Propagate Paste icon - alternatively, click the button, that stayed pressed, and leaves it like this while you are using that function. When you want it to return to the normal way of "Copy/ Paste" click again the button to deactivate it.
See the graphics:

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After to have activated the button "Propagate Paste" , click in the title bar of the smaller animation (that should be with all frames selected) and press the keys CTRL+C to copy the entire animation. Right away click in the title bar of the bigger animation (that also should be with all frames selected) and, in the tools bar, click the "Paste into selected frame" icon, at the left side of Propagate Paste. Remember that your "copy/paste" actions will be under the influence of the "propagate paste" command.
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Immediately after, bring smoothly the mouse point to the place, in the bigger GIF, that you want to insert the first frame from the animation you are 'pasting' - you will see the "image" of that frame being reproduced in the tip of the mouse cursor; its enough to choose the exact place and click with the left button of the mouse to insert the frame. Continuous act, and automatically, every other frames from the smaller animation will be pasted in the proper frames inside the bigger animation, on the exact point indicated by you with the click that you finished to do.
See the graphic:

finding the exact insertion point for the first frame

after clicking, all other frames will be automatically pasted

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With those so simple procedures you finished to insert an animation inside another, obtaining a result of perfect finish and synchronization between the frames - nothing will be 'jumping' outside its place, if you don't agree with. But you still may want to insert some text in that film, even with no special effects as shade and others: very easy! Press the keys CTRL+N to open a new animation with only one frame - in the dialogue window, set a size for it, big enough to fit the text (a signature, by example).
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the new animation

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Configure the color palette with the color (in foreground) you want to fill the text. In our example we defined the color "gray".
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With the tool text, click inside the new animation to insert the text, what will do open the dialogue window "Add Text". Configure like you want, click OK to accept and click again inside that new animation just to insert the text. Copy and Paste the text in your film, using the same approaches of Propagate Paste that you finished to know - notices that, previously, when inserting an animation inside other, you carried several frames (under the Propagate Paste influence) when doing the "copy and paste" - in case of the text, and because of our interest, you will be using the propagate paste to carry barely one frame to put inside this film, and that frame with the text will be automatically inserted in each one of the frames film. Good, isn't it?
Look on how stayed our exercise in the image on top of this page, where the moon is an animation that was inserted in the landscape (also an animation, itself) and where a text signature was also inserted.

Liked? Works in what you finished learning how, and will see as much as possibilities they are open for you to carry out a great Film.

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