Re: FLASH: placing a movie clip in movie

[Paul Kaiser]

>Thanks Paul !!!

>

>This brings me to another question - If my movie only contains

>7 keyframe/frames do I still need to have atleast 10 frames in

>the layer embedding it.

>

>You've been a great help ! Appreciate it !


No, you would not need 10 frames. As you may have noticed, a 7-frame movie

clip will play entirely even if it is put on a layer with only 1 keyframe.

Just as long as you don't have another keyframe on that layer before that

7th frame is reached. So, if you wanted a different movie to start at frame

3, you would certainly HAVE to put that movie on another Layer, so as to

not interrupt the original 7-frame movie.


To go along with that, if you Don't Want the movie visible after 7 frames,

you could put a keyframe on the movie's layer at frame 8 and be sure the

movie symbol was deleted at that point.


As long as the layer containing your movie clip (symbol) continues to be

visible, the movie will be visible. If your main timeline has only 1 frame

total and is looping during play, then even a 100-frame movie placed at

frame 1 will continue to be visible, since frame 1 is always visible.


However, let's say you had another layer, "Text Layer". If Text Layer goes

on for 2 frames, (no matter whether it is the same or different in those

two frames) then when the movie gets to frame 2, your placed movie symbol

(which is on a layer with only 1 frame) will not be visible. If the main

movie is looping, your placed movie symbol will be visible, invisible,

visible, invisible -- because it's looping from frame 1 to 2 to 1 to 2. At

frame 1 it is visible, at frame 2 it is invisible.


To solve this hypothetical problem, you would simply move to frame 2 in the

movie symbol's timeline and add a Frame, so that the layer would continue

to "exist" at frame 2.


Well, I have reworded this email about 3 times now. I hope I haven't

confused the issue more than helped it! Please let me know, because once

you get past this you're on to some really exciting stuff with Flash!


Take care,

Paul Kaiser




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