Animating in movie clips

I have 6 movie clip symbols on my timeline and each movie clip symbol has a short animation contained within itself. When I bring it to the timeline, they all animate simultaneously. I want them play sequentially but when I play them in on different layers in different keyframes it doesn't work.
Any idea how to make this work?
Thanks!

Pretty much anything is possible, just need to get the intentions straight. The answer to my question would seem to be that you want only one showing at any time. How you go about coding this depends on which version of actionscript you're using, but here's the general plan for one approach...
In the last frame of each animation except the last one, add code telling the parent timeline to move to the next frame...
In AS2 that could be: _parent.nextFrame();
In AS3 that could be: MovieClip(parent.nextFrame();
Then place each moivelcip on the main timeline, one frame after the other.

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Improvement Suggestion: Add Animation to Movie Clips in Repositories

Hi there,
I have been trying to post this improvement suggestion by filling-in the corresponding form but it didn't allow me enough characters to describe it correctly. So I am posting it here now and going to reference it in the Improvement Suggestion form...
Currently it's hard to perform a good edit because Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't provide a clip basket showing all available clips running, allowing the user to preview and choose from different takes of the same scene.
I'd like to suggest to animate all movie clips in all repositories, like Media Browser and Project panels, in order to create kind of an animated lightbox.
These clips should be run without audio, in low resolution and, optionally, at a lower framerate, depending on the machine's capabilities and user's preferences.
Clicking (and thereby activating) one of those movie clips should ...
magnify that clip,
enable audio for that clip,
display a timeline,
and display an in-point and an out-point marker.
Using these markers, the user shall be able to limit the preview loop of the clip in that particular repository (e.g. to repetitively monitor only a small scene of the movie clip).
Here's a link to a small movie clip demonstrating the improvement suggestion as a virtual live demonstration:
(While recording I was suffering from a tonsillitis, so the text might be hard to understand from time to time.)

After carrying this thought with me around for a while I'd like to add an update to my original suggestion:
When comparing different takes (= clips) of the same recorded live scenes, the usual editing process while working with Premiere Pro would be to drill down on the take that's supposed to be inserted into the sequence. So if there were 8 takes of the same scene, first there would be 8 clips to compare, then 7, 6, 5, 4... until the final clip is found.
In the course of the comparison process it would be very helpful to be able to "switch off" those takes that have been decided not to be used. So I'd like to update my suggestion to provide the following additional features:
Each preview clip should provide a play/pause feature. So playback shall be switched on and off individually for each of the preview clips.
As mentioned in my original suggestion, when activated (zoomed), the preview should provide buttons for manipulating that clip preview's playback. Originally I suggested a Play Audio button (with a speaker symbol).
I now, additionally, suggest to add a Play/Pause button to an activated (zoomed) clip preview. If playback is active, that button should display a Pause icon. If playback is paused, the same button should display a Play icon.
Given that, an active preview would be displayed something like this:
After a clip has been selected for an insert, the next editing step would be to search a clip from the repository for the next insertion into the sequence. So all tracks would be back in the game.
So there should be a new menu item, resuming playback of all preview clips in the repository: "Edit > Preview > Play all clips".
If the user wants to concentrate on the Program Montitor video, he/she should be able to pause all preview clips. So I suggest the should be a new menu item complementing the previous one: "Edit > Preview > Pause all clips".
Some people might prefer not to see any animation in the repositories at all. For them there should be a new option available in Premiere Preferences to pause all preview clips by default (this setting would equal to the current behaviour).
The user might want to concentrate on a single preview clip and just want to have this single clip being played back when activated (zoomed).
So I suggest there should also be a Solo option available.
By holding the [CTRL] key down while clicking the Play/Pause button suggested in provision #1, all preview clips should be paused and the currently active (zoomed) preview clip should be played back alone.
In my suggestion I have been focussing on using Premiere Pro with the mouse. But there should be keyboard shortcuts available for all these actions, too.

Animating dynamic move clips.

I have an unknown number of movie clips tat are added
dynamically. I can add them fine but i want to add them so they
appear off stage at a random x, y pos and then slide in and ease up
to another random spot on the screen. So each time the movie is
loaded it looks lik someone has thrown a bunch of photos out on a
table and they slide and spread to random locations and ease to a
stop. Anyone have any clues? i have found a number of tutorials but
would like some extra help/explanations.
Cheers.

very basically, it should be something like -
once a MC is loaded place it randomly offstage, and then
using the Tween
class move it to a random location on stage.
for further information, read the help files about 'random'
and 'tween'.
good luck,
eRez
www.allofme.com
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>I have an unknown number of movie clips tat are added
dynamically. I can
>add
> them fine but i want to add them so they appear off
stage at a random x, y
> pos
> and then slide in and ease up to another random spot on
the screen. So
> each
> time the movie is loaded it looks lik someone has thrown
a bunch of photos
> out
> on a table and they slide and spread to random locations
and ease to a
> stop.
> Anyone have any clues? i have found a number of
tutorials but would like
> some
> extra help/explanations.
>
> Cheers.
>

Animation inside movie clip symbols in "header" part of web site

Question: i have to make an animated header for the web site. several seconds it's going on and is stoped with action script command stop(); but i need one elenment inside flash-header continue animating like here: http://ves-lab.ru/ a rolling logo in upper left corner of header. If somewhere the answer has already been written - it would be nice someone write a link to this source. Thanks.

Make that entity that continues to animate a separate movieClip with its own animation.

Turning a layered animation into movie clip

I am a flash newbie so this may be a retarded question. I am
trying to turn a multilayered Flash animation into a movieclip
symbol. I have shapes on different layers that are shape tweened
and many shape hints that go with them. When I go to create a new
symbol and paste my frames the shape hints don't end up in the same
place as the shapes. Is there a way to keep the shapes and hints
together as I copy and paste frames? Is there an easier way to turn
this into a movieclip in the fist place?

knealis wrote:
> I am a flash newbie so this may be a retarded question.
I am trying to turn a
> multilayered Flash animation into a movieclip symbol. I
have shapes on
> different layers that are shape tweened and many shape
hints that go with them.
> When I go to create a new symbol and paste my frames the
shape hints don't end
> up in the same place as the shapes. Is there a way to
keep the shapes and
> hints together as I copy and paste frames? Is there an
easier way to turn this
> into a movieclip in the fist place?
No, there is no easier way, only Copy Paste frames.
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Working with movie clips

I'm making an animation with movie clips inside the stage but if i put action in the end of these for go to another frame in the stage, dosnt let me because AS3.0 does'nt alow script inside buttons and MC's.
Wath can i do for this issue.
The new code from AS3.0 is so diferent to AS2
Thanks for your time.
can you put some video to do things like this.????
By the way, this forum is the best, congratulations for all.

Thank you for the answer, i hope to understand AS3 more in the pass of days.
For other hand, can you tell me how can i make the background of my exported video transparent??
When export i mark the check box make alfa chanel on backgroud, but when i conver to FLV with Adobe Media Encoder, the background turns to black.
what other way can i use to import video.
Thank you any way

Selecting a frame in a movie clip

Hi,
A little help is required.
I have a movie clip, that i need to display on all frames on
the main timeline. I have animated the movie clip on its own
timeline. However I don't want the movie clip to play intially when
i load the movie. I only want it to play when a button is selected.
Can anyone please help me to get the movie clip to only play once a
button is clicked.
Thanks

I have all my movies etc working so that each button plays a
separate movie clip.
Within each movie I have start and stops mid way through the
movie.
What i want to happen is, when a button is clicked once, i
want it to play frame 2-10 then when it is clicked again I want it
to play 11-20. How do I make it recognise its a second click. I was
thinking of using the boolean feature, but i'm not sure how this
would be used.
Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Playing movie clips sequentially

I have 2 movie clips that I want to play one after another.
For instance, movie clip 1 should display an animation then movie
clip 2 comes into play after clip 1's animation is over. I placed
each clip on a separate layer in the main timeline. However, when I
placed clip 1 in frame one (leaving frame 2 empty for clip 1 layer)
and clip 2 in frame 2 (leaving frame 1 empty), both animations
don't display accurately. Please advise, thanks

Put both clips in frame 1 on the main timeline. Within each
movie clip, place a stop() script on the first frame. At the end of
movie clip 1 (the last frame), you can say _parent.movieclip2.goto
AndPlay ("some label") or gotoAndPlay (2). Depending on what else
is going on, this is simple enough. Make sure on the main timeline
that you add another layer called actions and put an action like
mocieclip1.gotoAndPlay ("some label name") or gotoAndPlay (2). If
you have it scripted to go to and play frame 2, make sure each
movie clip has a blank keyframe for their first frame.
I made a little example at
http://www.shan-dysigns.com/flashexamples/boxes.fla

Next/previous inside the movie Clip.

Hi,
I try to made Next/previous inside the movie Clip.But When I try to this next previous animation inside movie clip but not working.
I have attached both sample files.
The files are on following link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/125612766/28c58a99/fla.html

your code was _root.gotoAndStop(contor+1); but your root level only had 1 frame. I took out the "_root." and it worked fine. Here is the working file.

Casting a 3d movie clip in actionscript

Hello All,
I'm new to flash and actionscripting (i come from the land of ansi c but have traveled extensively). I've created a great animated animated 3d movie clip and want to have them generated on the stage in relation to an xml file. I've gotten this to work with a 2d movie clip but am running into problems casting a 3d object.
my object (a movie clip - boxContainer with an instance name of boxContainer_mc) is built out of all movie clips in the following way (shown in tree form):
boxContainer
-bottomBox
---boxFront
---boxLeft
---boxRight
---boxTop
---shadowFront
---shadowLeft
---shadowRight
---gradientLeft
---gradientRight
---gradientFront
-topBox (this movie clip contains an animation that is controlled through a MouseEvent:Click)
---left
---right
---top
---back
This animates smoothly through flash, but doesn't work when I try to cast the movie clip in actionscript 3 using the following code:
var boxContainer_mc:boxContainer = new boxContainer();
addChild(boxContainer_mc);
When I try to test the swf file I recieve the following errors:
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant:boxContainer
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method boxContainer
any ideas?

If this is a library item that you named boxContainer in the library, you need to designate that name as the linkage ID for the movie. Right click on it in the library, select Linkage from the menu that appears, and in the interface that appears select the Export for Actionscript option (another will be slected automatically). Be sure your Class name appears as you have it coded and click ok.

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.

Advice on animating lots of small movie clips

Hi,
I have a performance problem that may be best demonstrated
with an example.
http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/swf/game1.swf
If you look at the animation and watch it for a while you
will see the
number of balls growing.
Initially the performance is so-so but eventually it becomes
totally
unacceptable. So I was wondering if anyone could impart
advice about any
optimizations.
Every tile is a movie clip and every ball is a movie clip
that tweens from
one tile to the next. I also need to read the frame the clips
are on but
when I bound a class to the balls clip it immediatly ran
unacceptably slow.
I have a plan B which involves creating tile animations of
each of the ball
animations, which I know would create a huge performance gain
but would mean
creating 510 tile animations and thus make the animations
unmaintainable.
TIA
Wil

I created a new tween object just the once for each x and y
as neeed. Would
that make much odds?
Is the other poster kglad correct in saying the number of
visible movie
clips in this instance shouldn't be causing problems?
Cheers
Wil
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> How are you doing the tweens? OnEnterFrames? You will
want to delete each
> of
> the onEnterFrames as they each finish.
>
> Other than that you are running into a major Flash wall:
you can't have
> hundreds of animations running at the same time. Flash
just isn't built
> for
> that.
>

Movie Clip in swf won't show animation in adobe premiere pro cs4

Hi, I am new to this forum and as well as a beginner user of adobe premiere pro cs4. I am recently making a animation using Adobe Flash CS5, I've been using movie clips symbol to create all the movement of the character, background and stuff. Unfortunately, swf movies exported from Adobe Flash CS5 do not show any animation at all in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. I have to use movie clips symbol instead of graphic symbol because filters can be added to a movie clip symbol but not graphic symbol. Is there any way to help making the movie clip symbol to be shown in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4? Your help is much appreciated.

Check Flash help in the "video" section, specifically "moving content between" PR and FL. (I was looking at CS4, but it must be there in CS5 help as well.)
Your movie is to be watched on a TV? I would do this in After Effects. because you'll lose most of the flash functionality once you go to video anyway,

Animated drop down buttons not working in movie clip

Hi,
I am working on this site: (AS2)
http://www.steamandclean.com/Index_w_1.html
I have two types of drop down menu. One under Commercial and one under Technical
The buttons are movie clips. The drop downs are also movie clips that start in frame 2 and are triggered on rollover.
The child buttons are buttons living on the drop down movie clips. They are set to getURL
As you see they are not willing to neither link to any url or will they run their move clip animation. One is a button and one is a movie clip.
The left movie clip has a mask, but it makes no difference if I remove the mask . It also has a emboss filter and no difference is I take that away either.
All of it is in one flash movie right now, but I will be splitting it up in a master navigation movie and individual swf's soon.
Right now I have the main movie, then the button MC then the dropdown MC and in the drop down MC I have placed either a animated (button) MC or a button. So it nested in nested in.......
In both cases I scripting the child buttons like this:
on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay(2);
on (rollOut) {
gotoAndPlay(6);
on (release) {
getURL("http://steamandclean.com");
I have also tried to use
_parent.getURL and _root.getURL in stead of just get URL, but it does not work.
The drop down buttons seem to be buried. In the left side the whole drop down panel seems to act like a link?
What am I doing wrong?
Can you help?
ggaarde

Hi Ned
Thank you for your reply again.
I figured it out.
Your reply prompted me to have my main button on rollover to go to a frame number on the main time line and then move the content of the drop down movie clip to that frame.
The drop down panel now work and the child buttons animation now work as well. I just had to find a way to make the drop down panel disappear on rollout. Since I could not script the actual drop down panel I created three skinny invisible buttons and placed them on the right, left and button of the drop down panel. I scripted them to go back to frame 1 on both rollover and rollout. Done.
See the result there:
http://www.steamandclean.com/Index_w_1.html
(Left side only)
Thank you for your help.
ggaarde

How can I make the Instance name the same as the name of the Movie clip in an animation.

Hi, I am an animator for a small game project and I have this really big problem. Even though I used flash for animation for a long time I am a newbie when it comes to something technical. I just received a request to make every movie clip that I use to have a consistent <Instance name> in every frame of the animation. Only if they told me this earlier... Is there an easier way to make the <Instance name> the same as the name of the Movie clip used other than manually entering it. I have 16 characters with 12 body parts with 20 animations each with about 6-7 frames for each body part it will take me months and nightmares evey night to enter everything by hand. Please help me keep my sanity!
I'm not sure if I explain correctly, so here is a picture:
Thank you!

Thank you for the fast answer! I found this video on jsfl functionality that deals with a similar problem, I am not a coder so it will take me some time to figure it out, but when I do I will probably post the answer here. Here is the video:

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