Re: FLASH: keeping track of the number of frames...do i make sense..?

[John Croteau]

Hi ABDUL RASHEED,


> I am a newbie to flash...and am still learning the tricks!

> I've this confusion....dont we need to keep track of the number of frames in

> a movie clip..? I mean...suppose I have a movie clip...which has a motion

> tween in the span of 40 frames. Now...if I drag an instance of that movie

> clip to my main movie and I want the effect of the movie clip in a

> particular order compared to other stuff in the main movie time line...does

> not it require to count how many frames are there in the movie clip...and

> make sure that the stuff in the main time line occurs only after that..?

> If its so..is it not an additional pain compared to having everything on the

> main movie itself..?

> In other words, what are the guidelines to resort to have movie clips and

> drag them to the main movie's time line...?

Movie clips run on completely independent timelines.

They can be started and stopped whether or not the main timeline is

moving.

If both a movie clip and the main timeline are moving at the same time

each will advance one frame at a time.


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