@Chris, re moving keyframes - you can as long as they’re contiguous frames on the main timeline, which is pretty much the same as Classic tweens. To select the frames, make sure you hold Cmd/Ctrl first.

Also, it is very difficult to modify the timing of your eases using the new model. Individual key frames along the ease are difficult to move around on the timeline, and I still haven’t figured out a way to move multiple keyframes on different objects at once. Is there a way to do this?

Overall, I applaud Adobe’s efforts to increase the flexibility and efficiency of animation in Flash, but I feel that CS4 breaks a lot of things in order to make a few things better. This is of great concern to me, because a modification of the motion model this significant is difficult to tamper with in future versions of Flash, and I fear that Adobe has taken a big step with no recourse to fix it later.

If in the Motion Editor, you can apply the same tween to categories of layers, such as “Basic Motion” or a filter. In the main timeline, you can set preset to multiple tweens (on multiple layers if you wish) using presets. Any ease, such as a custom ease or whatever is in that preset, will be applied just as it is with the same settings to all of the selected tweens. Note that if you do that, it will update any animation you have to be the same as the preset. So this may be useful if you have not animated your instances yet, but if you already have you might not want to do this.

We are exploring new ways to apply eases after-the-fact. Any things you’d like in particular, please share!

One question though… Is there an easy way to apply the same easing settings to a group of layers?