From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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From the course: Migrating from Flash to Toon Boom Harmony

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- Now we'll take a look at the Flash library and contrast it with the Toon Boom library, which has a quite different way of structuring its files. First the Flash library, which essentially when you save a Flash file the library gets saved with it and everything's inside it, so that does not happen in Harmony, but first a quick run through of Flash. So you have your folder structure where you can save all the symbols, you can save artwork on the stage to the library as a symbol, and you can have nested symbols, so you can have the mouth, for example, which is here, which has six mouth shapes inside it, and we can control which ones are exposed on the stage by changing the number in the Properties panel. Pretty much it, I can explain in that quickly. So let's take a look at Harmony. Same figure in Harmony, big difference. Each layer on the timeline, which we see here and here, corresponds to a folder on your hard drive. So let me show you what this means. So in this case let's assume…

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