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Splitting and joining sprites

You may need to split an existing sprite into two separate sprites or join separate sprites. If, for example, you created a complex animation as separate sprites and now want to move the entire sequence in the Score, you would join the sprites. Splitting and joining also lets you update movies created with older versions of Director that may have several fragmented sprites.

To split an existing sprite:

1 | In the Score, click the frame within a sprite where the split will occur.
| The playback head moves to the frame you clicked.
2 | Choose Modify > Split Sprite.
| Director splits the sprite into two new ones.

To join separate sprites into a single sprite:

1 | Select the sprites you want to join, as described in Selecting sprites.
| Director fills the gaps between the selected sprites. You can also select sprites in several channels. Director joins selected sprites in each individual channel.
2 | Choose Modify > Join Sprite.