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Representations of animations in the Timeline

Flash distinguishes tweened animation from frame-by-frame animation in the Timeline as follows:

| Motion tweens are indicated by a black dot at the beginning keyframe; intermediate tweened frames have a black arrow with a light-blue background.
| Shape tweens are indicated by a black dot at the beginning keyframe; intermediate frames have a black arrow with a light-green background.
| A dashed line indicates that the tween is broken or incomplete, such as when the final keyframe is missing.
| A single keyframe is indicated by a black dot. Light-gray frames after a single keyframe contain the same content with no changes and have a black line with a hollow rectangle at the last frame of the span.
| A small a indicates that the frame has been assigned a frame action with the Actions panel.
| A red flag indicates that the frame contains a label or comment.
| A gold anchor indicates that the frame is a named anchor.