# How can I flatten all the layers of a flash animation?

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**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-flatten-all-the-layers-of-a-flash-animation/260153 "2008-05-13T00:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![hypeforlife91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hypeforlife91](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hypeforlife91)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-flatten-all-the-layers-of-a-flash-animation/260153/1 "2008-05-13T00:31:00Z")

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Hi, I’ve seen in this tutorial: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm) and downloaded the .fla file and I’ve seen that it’s all flattened into one layer and the frames of that layer are also all flattened. How can I do that in Flash 8? I made another animation and want to flatten it as well. Thanks! 😃 👼

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**Author:** ![glosrfc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/glosrfc/32/8334_2.png) [@glosrfc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glosrfc)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-can-i-flatten-all-the-layers-of-a-flash-animation/260153/2 "2008-05-13T01:02:50Z")

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Nothing’s been flattened…they’re simply nested movieclips. Double-click on the M Dexter movieclip that you can see on the stage. This will open up to show all the layers containing more movieclips. Double-click on M Head then on M Blink, and that too will reveal more layers.  
Because movieclips will loop unless told not to by a stop(); action, you can place nested movieclips (with their own independent timeline) into a single frame.  
So all you have to do is copy your animation, with all its frames and symbols, into a new movieclip and put that onto the stage.