AC 2.0 Movie Clips with Movie Clips

Can I write actions on the main movie frame that apply to
movie clips that are inside other movie clips? Actions just seem to
not do anything to them?

yes, but you must wait until those movieclips exist and you
must use the correct path reference to them.

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I made a 3-minute movie with my iphone 4S. When I attempt to share it via email or message I get a message that says it is too long, that I should try to make a clip. Of course I had rather send the whole thing. What are the possibilities? I think my music and likely my videos and pictures are in the cloud.

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How do I move a clip with transitions attached on the primary storyline?

One more frustrating problem with the mysterious magnetic timeline: on the priumary storyline I created a text clip with a gap clip on each side, then added cross dissolve at the beginning and end of the clip so that it fades in and out to black:
Now I want to reposition this text in the timeline, mantaining the fade in/out at the head and tails. In FCP7 this was simple as a gap in the timeline simply showed black and the clip could be moved as one piece. In FCPX when I try to move the text clip with the P position tool, the transitions disappear after repositioning. Extremely frustrating:
If I select the clip and the fades together, plus the gap clip at the end, and move them together with the Position tool then the fade out is retained, but the fade in still disappears. I've also tried rolling from the fade in from the gap clip before it, but instead of rolling the clip ahead this shortens the fade (I think the behavior of trimming and rolling transitions is totally wacky). The trim tool is also useless in this situation as you can only select one edit point at a time with it.
The only solution I found is to cut the gap clip before the transition, then move the text clip and transitions with the P tool. This will create two abuting gap clips before the text clip, but allow the transitions to remain intact. Not hard, but annoying to have to do
Often I have to adjust the position of a text clip in the timeline like this after adding the transitions to get the timing right. Is there any way to move the clip while retaining the transitions at the beginning and end? It would be so much easier to be able to roll the edges of the gap clips so that I didn't have to make extra edits and workarounds.
The problem seems to be that the gap clip acts as like a regular black slug video clip in some cases, but not in other case. When you move a clip in the primary storyline a gap clip is automatically created to fill a gap -- okay, fine. But you can roll the edges of a video clip with the P tool, but not a gap clip. ***?
I'm using the latest update, 10.0.8. I will be submitting this to Apple as well....

I am trying to move the text clip forward with the transitions still attached. The difference is that in FCP7 you can leave a gap before a dissolve and it will fade in from black. If you move the text clip, the dissolve moves with it, still attached.
In FCPX however, the gap has to be a gap clip. So the dissolve is attached to both the gap clip and to the text clip. Once you put the dissolve on the edit point, there is no way to move the text clip forward or back on the timeline without deleting the dissolve. Or, if you move the clip forward or back with the Position tool (necessary to create a gap) then the transitions just disappear.
Basically, I am looking to roll the transition with the clip.
I could use the opacity handle on the text clip (using "show video animation") in stead of a dissolve, but then I have no control over the shape of the dissolve curve and I'd have to add extra handles to the text clip to center the dissolve where I want it.
Regarding "I very seldom use the position tool. Rolling the gap clips can be done with the regular arrow tool - *that* is one example of the magnetic timeline working for you."
This is true, but clips behave differently when you you roll with the P tool vs the A tool. With the A tool, other clips are magnetically rippled forward or back on the timeline to maintain their relative relationship and avoid all gaps. With the P tool, video clips maintain their position on the timeline, creating or trimming gap clips when a gap is created or filled. The problem arises when a transition is attached to the clip you are moving or trimming.
I understand in priniciple why it behaves the way it does, but it's inconvenient in this case, and inconsistent with the normal behavior of gap clips when a transition isn't involved.
In my mind the transition should be anchored to the video clip, not to both the video and gap clip when there is a transition between the two.

I need to delete a variable containing a movie clip class and recreate it with a different movie clip class

Hello,
I am creating a program that is going to help students learn to read. In my project are pages of text with each word having a button that when pressed will display a movieclip presentation about that word (its pronounciation and spelling etc..). In the project I am working on now I have over 450 unique presentations of words to deal with. I don't want to have all of these hundreds of movie clips on the stage and tell them one at a time to stop and rewind and then have one play each time a word button is pressed. That seems to be very inefficient to me. So I want to do this with some code in Actionscript 3.
I know I can dynamically add movieclips to the stage using addChild(movieclipname) and remove them using removeChild(movieclipname) but there is a problem. I have hundreds of unique movieclips and I don't want to have to manage hundreds of variables containing the indivudual movieclip instancess. It is a real pain having to figure out what instance is still on the stage before i delete it.
In Adobe Director all I have to do is this:
on mousedown me
     sprite(me.spritenum).member = member("somenewmember:)
end
and that was it
But if I do this in actionscript 3:
removeChild(some_mc)
some_mc still exists in memory. And I have to know exactly what variable it is to remove or else the movie will fail with an error. If I try to be brutish about it and try to implicitly remove all 450 movieclip instance variables from the stage I will get at least 449 errors.
What I want to do is this:
removeChild(some_mc)
some_mc = void //or //delete some_mc
var some_mc:MovieClip = new someother_mc();
addChild(some_mc)
but this doesn't work
How am I going to remove one of 450 movie clips and add a new totally different movie clip without the code knowing exactly what the last movie clip was? I suppose if could remove a child from the stage based on a string name then I could hold that name in a variable for later disposal.Can I do this?
Thanks for any help you can give me. I am new to actionscript.

Hey I think I may have a solution:
//begin code
var myMC:MovieClip = new ball();
var starMC:MovieClip = new star();
var youpresseeditMC:MovieClip = new youpresseedit();
starMC.name = "star";
myMC.name = "ball";
youpresseeditMC.name = "youpresseedit"
addChild(myMC);
box.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, replaceball);
press_BTN.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, replaceballwithtext);
function replaceball(event:MouseEvent):void {
    trace(myMC.name)
    removeChild(myMC);
    myMC = starMC;
    addChild(myMC);
    trace(myMC.name)
function replaceballwithtext(event:MouseEvent):void {
    trace(myMC.name)
    removeChild(myMC);
    myMC = youpresseeditMC;
    addChild(myMC);
    trace(myMC.name)
///end code
This works. I see the ball object replaced by the star and I am able to do this by manipulating just myMC. Is there anything I should be concerned with in this approach?
Thanks for your help

I made a movie in iMovie then deleted the clips in it. I have reimported the clips in an event with the same name as previously and some clips in the movie are still saying source slip missing even though they are there. What can I do?

I made a movie in iMovie then deleted the clips in it. I have reimported the clips in an event with the same name as previously and some clips in the movie are still saying source slip missing even though they are there. Some clips are fine in the movie, but most are just black and when I hover over them, it says source clip missing. How to I fix this? Thank You

I did that too, then I did a migration assistant to a new Mac and ALL of my movies have Source Clip Missing now, even though the original clips are still in the iPhoto Videos. I can stand to re edit one or two projects, but not ALL.

How can I convert my animation into a working movie clip that can be used with a new scene?

Hello all,
First and foremost, I AM A TOTAL FLASH NOOB. I want to preface this and make it incredibly clear how new this all is to me. I LITERALLY started using flash this morning; that is precisely how new I am.
With that being said I am going to do my best to explain what I'd like to do.
I have created an animation of a spider moving its legs back and forth. I want to be able to combine all of the layers into 1 simple animation that can be imported into new flash scenes with the animation exactly how it stands. I have figured out how to convert the whole animation into a symbol AND I have figured out how to import the movie clip from the library. However, herein lies my problem. When I open a new flash scene and import my animation, I play it and it does nothing at all. It's just the static image of the spider I created with no movement.
I've spent the last couple hours trying to figure out (and doing my own research) what I have done or didn't do to get to this point. I'd be willing to bet I am just going about the entire process incorrectly and I'm simple overlooking a basic facet of the program.
Any insight to fix my ignorance is greatly appreciated.
(P.S. Hell, I don't even know if I am using the correct terminology so for all I know I am confusing every person who has taken the time to look at my question. If I am using incorrect terminology please correct me to avoid future hang ups. Thank you.)

Ned! This totally worked! Thank you! I knew there was a tiny piece of this whole thing that was preventing me from making everything work. Unfortunately as my luck would have it, although I have the movieclip working the spritesheet converter I'm using now no longer recognizes the movie clip. The converter says there are 7 frames in the animation, but doesn't display any working sprites. Just a blank sheet. Frustrating to say the least.
I'm just going to throw everything out on the table here:
This is the video tutorial i'm using to convert my animation into a spritesheet. I've done the steps exactly as directly up until the point I actually click "Begin Conversion." When begin conversion is selected, it shows the movieclip exists on the bottom left underneath "list of movieclips" but doesn't actually show any individual sprites.
Here's the simple sprite converter I am using.
The irony of this whole situation is that you have successfully helped me make a working movieclip (which was the important piece), but the converter no longer recognizes it. Whereas before, it would at least show the image on the 1 frame of animation it had.
If you wanted to to take a stab at it and see if you can successfully get it to work I'd be appreciative. If not, I totally understand as you have already been incredibly helpful and have my eternal gratitude for getting me this far. These animation programs can be quite overwhelming when they so vastly differ from one another. Don't even get me started no Anime' Studio Pro.

IPad - with movie clips - how can I play more than one at a time?

iPad2. I post short movie clips via iTunes to the Photo catagory. I can play each of these clips by selecting the clip and pressing the start arrow, only the selected clip will play. How can I select a group of movie clips and have them play with only one selection. Like a "slide show" but for movie clips???

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HOW TO CAPTURE DIGITAL VIDEO CLIPS, OPTIONALY WITH WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

I want to capture video clips and save them on disk, when a certain event occurs.If possible I prefer to do it with labview only. Optionaly to execute a record command on windows movie maker, save with arbitrary file name, and go back to standby mode for the next clip.

Do you have a camera along with the IMAQ hardware? Then, the easiest way is probably using the IMAQ VIs to acquire frames and create avi files out of them. There is some example code on how to grab images using the imaq hardware.
http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B45EACE3E1DB56A4E034080020E74861&p_node=DZ52490&p_source=external
Generating the avi files is fairly straightforward once you know how to acquire images. Lookup the help on the "IMAQ AVI" VIs.
If you have a camera hooked up through USB, you can try the documentation on the following link. I have never used labview with usb cameras though.
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/274A74A901399D0486256F32007295F9
Prakash K

My desktop IMac OSX 10.6.8 : IMovie '11: Trying to upload a home movie clip from my Panosonic camera model PV-DV203D. I've had this camera several years, and used it with Windows desktop. Now trying to work with my Mac. I have a USB cable, both ends fit,

My desktop IMac OSX 10.6.8 : IMovie '11: Trying to upload a home movie clip from my Panosonic camera model PV-DV203D. I've had this camera several years, and used it with Windows desktop. Now trying to work with my Mac. I have a USB cable, both ends fit, but iMovie '11 does not recognize it. Is there a driver fix for this?

What kind of Mac to you have? This camera is a tape based DV one that connects best with firewire and I cannot tell if your Mac has firewire. If your mac *does* have firewire, get a camcorder firewire cable and try again.
ETA: Oops, I am pretty sure that all the "desktop iMacs" have firewire, so you should be good to go. You will probably need a cord that goes from FW800 to your camcorder.

Trouble Exporting movie with Media Encoder, weird clip sizes and errors

I'm using Premiere Pro CS4 on a Windows XP Professional with 2gb RAM and 1.6GHz. I'm trying to export a short movie (2.5 minutes) with no audio. It is just a bunch of stitched together videos imported from 1280x 1024. I'm sizing them into 720 x 480. I get very poor video quality unless I use uncompressed formats, so I am using an Uncompressed AVI with UYVY Codec and 1.0 square pixels.
1st problem: I get an error running more than around 35-50seconds:
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2nd: I tried spliting the video up into 4 different files and the last clip won't match the others. I export all of them the same way, with 1.0 aspect ratio and the first 3 come out saying .9091NTSC. The last one will say it is 1.0 ratio if I do it the same way or 0.9091 NTSC if I change it, but either way, it will come out wider that the other clips (they will all still have black space on sides).

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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/332/332331.html
http://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/Error:Error_compiling_movie
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When I select a clip of video and move to a different place in my time line, Premiere Elements 13, will not release the clip from the mouse.
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This issue has consumed too much of my time and does not go away. It ruins my video.
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Then I started wondering what processes (tools/tweaks) I run by default on my account. Turned out the problem was called by a little background tool called RightZoom. RightZoom let's the green 'zoom' button always maximize your current window.
So thanks! Problem solved!

Problem with non loading movie clips in CS3

Hi.
I am making an animation ( Trailer for an upcoming handheld
game i am working on ).
And i have encountered a problem when i play back the
animation with Flash player.
There is two movie clips in the animation ( Normal vector
drawing but with effects applied on it ( color adjustment , and
blur ) ) and when i play the published swf back with flash player
the two movie clips are in their normal Vector mode ( without the
filters ) until the middle of the animation when they finally
"load" , the filters finally have an effect on the two vector
drawings.
i use a very high end computer so that couldn't be it.
And when i am going to upload the flash film there's going to
be a loading screen ... i have no clue if it's going to fix this.
But for now this is really odd and looks really awkward.
If this problem persist i will not make the deadline. please
help fast.
Thanks everybody.
-Jimmy Gonzo
EDIT: oh and i also noticed that when the stuff isn't loaded
yet... the animation goes too fast.

It seems to me that you need to put a preloader in the first
frame of your whole .fla. It seems that all your assets are not
being loaded before the .swf playhead moves forward.
A simple preloader could be something like:
frame 1 label this as "preloader"
frame 2 (insert the following commands)
if (this._framesloaded >= this._totalframes) {
this.gotoAndPlay("init");
}else{
this.gotoAndPlay("preloader");
}

Flash Newbie needs help with Movie Clips/Action Scripting

Hi -
I'm having a problem with my movie clips playing
simultaneously and cannot, for the life of me, figure out what I
have done wrong. I'm new to flash, so I may have set something up
incorrectly, but here's what I have so far:
11 layers, total: 1 layer with 10 control buttons, each
button with the following actionscript:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(85);
Where the number changes in relation to which keyframe the
next movie is on.
I have 10 movies, total, but they are only movie clips,
essentially photo slide shows with audio, made all in the library.
The problem happens when I click on the second or third
button. Not only does the movie that I have selected begin to play,
but all of the previous clips do as well, so it all sounds quite
garbled. I don't know what I am missing in the action script, as my
Action Layer has a stop command on it at each keyframe where there
is a new clip to play.
I have tried to add a stopAllSounds command, but I'm afraid
that doesn't do anything because it is not a "sound file" per se,
playing in the timeline.
I'm at the end of my rope and really need some help in
figuring this one out. My project is hanging in the balance on
this, as I have scripted everything else correctly and it runs
beautifully.
Please help!
Thanks,
Caroline

Each layer has a blank keyframe before and after each
movieclip. Each movie clip is at a different frame. Even with the
blank keyframes added, the second video starts to play and then the
first video begins to play. Same happens if I click on the third
button. Third plays, and starts 1st and 2nd shortly thereafter. Is
there an action script I can put in that will tell the timeline
that, when a button is clicked, no matter where the movieclip is,
it will stop and start the newly selected movieclip?

Help with Movie Clips

Hi -
I'm having a problem with my movie clips playing
simultaneously and cannot, for the life of me, figure out what I
have done wrong. I'm new to flash, so I may have set something up
incorrectly, but here's what I have so far:
11 layers, total: 1 layer with 10 control buttons, each
button with the following actionscript:
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(85);
Where the number changes in relation to which keyframe the
next movie is on.
I have 10 movies, total, but they are only movie clips,
essentially photo slide shows with audio, made all in the library.
The problem happens when I click on a the second or third
button. Not only does the movie that I have selected begin to play,
but all of the previous clips do as well, so it all sounds quite
garbled. I don't know what I am missing in the action script, as my
Action Layer has a stop command on it at each keyframe where there
is a new clip to play.
I have tried to add a stopAllSounds command, but I'm afraid
that doesn't do anything because it is not a "sound file" per se,
playing in the timeline.
I'm at the end of my rope and really need some help in
figuring this one out. My project is hanging in the balance on
this, as I have scripted everything else correctly and it runs
beautifully.
Please help!
Thanks,
Caroline

They do not have to be on the same layer, but they should not
exist on the timeline for the entire movie, just where they are
necessary.
Lets say you have three movieclips ten frames apart on the
timeline. Mc1 (movieclip1) is on frame 1, Mc2 is on frame 11, and
Mc3 is on frame 21. Mc1 should only be on the timeline from frame
1-10, then it should not exist on frame 11. This way if you jump to
frame 11 only Mc2 will play, because Mc1 isn't on the timeline
anymore.
They do not have to be on the same layer.
It may help if you email me the file. My address is on my
name on the lefthand side of this forum post.

Help with smooth scrolling (masked movie clip)

Ok, I really need help here, and I'll be very grateful for
help before Monday.
Someone has made a movie with a different set of text on each
frame, the text goes out of the viewable area.
I have been asked to make these frames appear in a pop-up on
another flash and be scrollable.
i thought this would be easy...just cut and paste them into a
movie clip, then using a mask to hide the rest of the text.
However, it is going painstakingly slow.
Seems to be a performance issue, but it might be my code.
Any help with the code, or optimisation elsewhere would be
helpfully.
Heres a simplified version of the flash;
www.darkflame.co.uk/flashwork/Flash_popuptest.fla
Code for the scrolling;
_global.MoveUp = function(text) {
_root.ITproduct.IT_productlist._y =
_root.ITproduct.IT_productlist._y+6;
updateAfterEvent();
//trace('press');
Called and stopped by;
on (press){
//this._parent.IT_productlist._y =
this._parent.IT_productlist._y +10;
//_global.scrollon = "yes";
clearInterval(IntervalID);
IntervalID = setInterval(MoveUp,100);
updateAfterEvent()
//updateAfterEvent();
//MoveUp();
//scroll on
on (release) {
//this._parent.IT_productlist._y =
this._parent.IT_productlist._y +10;
clearInterval(IntervalID);
updateAfterEvent();
//scroll off
which is linked to a button.
I dont know if this is a actionscript problem, or the way the
page is made, or both.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas Wrobel

you have extraneous graphics on-stage that are slowing the
scrolling (and even causing problems in the authoring environment).
here's your file with those graphics removed:
http://www.gladstien.com/Files.popupTest.fla

Making a sound clip sync with rest of movie.

So I solved this problem and realized I posted it under AS3 and it should have been here. So I figured it may help somone. All I did was change the setting to "Stream" under the properties panel for each sound clip!
Making sound sync with my controls
Hello all,
This is one of my first flash movies so bear with my inexperience!
I've made a slide show with three pieces of audio that are set up to play with certain images. So you can imagine when the video is paused but the sound continues playing everything gets a bit messed up.
I have each audio on a different layer and none of them overlap, just fade in/out to one another.
EDIT: Almost forgot, so how can I get the audio to stop/play along with the rest of the flash file when play/pause is clicked on. And can I skip forword/backward 15frames in the audio clip as I am doing with the images?
Here is the AS3 for the back button (gtmf) and foreword button (gtpf)
stop();
mc_content.stop();
gtmf.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gtmfs);
function gtmfs(event:MouseEvent) :void {
gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame-15)
mc_content.gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame-15)
pp.gotoAndStop(1);
gtpf.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gtpfs);
function gtpfs(event:MouseEvent) :void {
gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame+15)
mc_content.gotoAndStop(this.currentFrame+15)
pp.gotoAndStop(1);
The play/pause button is a movieclip symbol (pp) with two frames, each with their own AS3.
Play button (gogo)
stop();
gogo.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goplaying);
function goplaying(event:MouseEvent) :void {
MovieClip(root).play();
MovieClip(root).mc_content.play();
gotoAndStop(2);
Pause button (halthalt)
stop();
halthalt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, haltplaying);
function haltplaying(event:MouseEvent) :void {
MovieClip(root).stop();
MovieClip(root).mc_content.stop();
gotoAndStop(1);

Yep, ain't that the truth....
Along with the randomness of the HTML elements in general, the relationship between the Flash and HTML are similarly 'independent'.
I was just wondering if there were some little tricks or methods used by web guys these days, as it seems like clever new techniques or new capabilities in CSS or Flash pop up from time to time.
Very odd, though... The interface graphics are very light, yet sometimes the page takes a few seconds to show, and the Flash appears right away (the opposite of what I'd normally expect, when things 'go wrong').
I still don't get why the SWF shows up (when the rest of the table doesn't), if the rule is true that a table won't show up unless all the content is available.
Is there some sort of weird exception if the content of a cell is Flash?

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