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.

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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.

Purpose of motion tweens + movie clip symbols

Hello. I've been going over several tutorials and whatnot and I'm confused on the point of movie clip symbols and motion tweens. To me using the other tweens and symbols are "easier". Can someone explain to me why they're so beneficial to have been added to CS4/CS5? Except I understand that movie clip symbols can be adjusted using the 3D tools but is that the only difference?
Thanks so much

it's easier to fine-tune different movieclip property tweens using the motion editor than it is to control those tweens using the classic tween. that said, for most tweens, the classic tween works well and it's easier to implement.

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.

Remove Child and Event.SOUND_COMPLETE not working inside movie clip. What's the problem?

I have a movie clip that is called to the stage. The user then clicks a button and music plays. As the music starts, another movie clip is called, a simulation of an equilizer. There are several things that should happen:
1) When the user closes the movie clip the music is supposed to stop playing and the equilizer movie clip is removed. What actually happens is the music stops playing but the equilzer movie clip is not removed.
2) When the music is finished playing the equilzer is supposed to be removed from the stage and the play button is reactivated. But none of that happens. When I click on the movie clip a second time equilizer is still there and the play button is not reactivated.
Here's the code that calls the movie clip to the stage.
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, goButtons);
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        SoundMixer.stopAll();
        addChild(myPlaySong);
        myPlaySong.x = 304;
        myPlaySong.y = 105;
        //event.stopImmediatePropagation();
Here's the code in the movie clip:
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.events.Event;
stop();
var playRayJaySong:RJSong;
var playRayJaySongChannel:SoundChannel;
var equilizer:Equilizer;
equilizer = new Equilizer();
playRayJaySong = new RJSong();
//Plays music, inactivates buttons, and adds the equilizer to the stage.
PlaySongRJClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, songPageButton);
function songPageButton(event:Event):void
    playRayJaySongChannel = playRayJaySong.play();
    PlaySongRJClip.visible = false;
    ClicktoPlaySong.visible = false;
    addChild(equilizer);
    equilizer.x = 269;
    equilizer.y = 246;
//Removes the equilizer from the stage when the music is complete.
PlaySongRJClip.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, rjSoundComplete);
    function rjSoundComplete(e:Event):void
    PlaySongRJClip.visible = true;
    ClicktoPlaySong.visible = true;
    removeChild(equilizer);
//Removes the equilizer and event listeners from stage and calls dispatch event to close the movie clip.
closeSong_bnt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, CloseSong);
function CloseSong(event:MouseEvent):void
    removeChild(equilizer);
    dispatchEvent(new Event("RemoveMSong"));
    PlaySongRJClip.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, songPageButton);
    PlaySongRJClip.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, rjSoundComplete);
//Removes the MovieClip from the stage when the user clicks on the close button inside the MovieClip.
myPlaySong.addEventListener("RemoveMSong", RemoveSongClip);
function RemoveSongClip(e:Event):void
    SoundMixer.stopAll();
    removeChild(myPlaySong);
Any thoughts?

I figured out the problem. Here's how I reorganized the code (all in one frame).
//Code for Ray Jay song.
var playRayJaySong:RJSong;
var playRayJaySongChannel:SoundChannel;
playRayJaySong = new RJSong();
myPlaySong.equilizer_inst.visible = false;
//Plays the song.
myPlaySong.PlaySongRJClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, songPageButton);
function songPageButton(event:Event):void
    playRayJaySongChannel = playRayJaySong.play();
    playRayJaySongChannel.addEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, rjSoundComplete);
    myPlaySong.equilizer_inst.visible = true;
    myPlaySong.PlaySongRJClip.visible = false;
    myPlaySong.ClicktoPlaySong.visible = false;
//Removes the MovieClip from the stage when the user clicks on the close button inside the MovieClip.
myPlaySong.closeSong_bnt.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,RemoveSongClip);
function RemoveSongClip(e:Event):void
    SoundMixer.stopAll();
    removeChild(myPlaySong);
    myPlaySong.equilizer_inst.visible = false;
    myPlaySong.PlaySongRJClip.visible = true;
    myPlaySong.ClicktoPlaySong.visible = true;
    playRayJaySongChannel.removeEventListener(Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, rjSoundComplete);
//Resets all of the movieclips to their orginal state.
function rjSoundComplete(e:Event):void
    myPlaySong.equilizer_inst.visible = false;
    myPlaySong.PlaySongRJClip.visible = true;
    myPlaySong.ClicktoPlaySong.visible = true;
Thanks all for your suggests and input.

AS3 Putting Buttons Inside Movie Clip

I am practicing AS3 (after years of AS2) and am having trouble having a button inside a movie clip talk to another movie clip on the main timeline. Here is the code:
OneButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, OneButtonClicked);
function OneButtonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieTarget.gotoAndStop(1);
MovieDescription.gotoAndStop("One");
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The code above works, but if I put OneButton and TwoButton inside a movie clip, I know longer can target MovieTarget and MovieDescription. The reason I want to put OneButton and TwoButton inside it's own MC is so I can dim each button after it is clicked by toggling the playhead inside that MC. Help? Thanks!

Start over from the begining
press f8 and chose movieClip then draw your untoggled button call the movie button then create another movie and create your toggled button or greyed out button and call it greyedButton. Go to main stage add 2 button instances and 2 greyedButton instances( just drag from library). you have 4 instances on stage. give call instance names and place one them on top of each other so u can only see 2 buttons on stage. put the greyed button under the button.
now with action script
button1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, OneButtonClicked);
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button1.visible = false; // here the greyed button will show
button2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, TwoButtonClicked);
function TwoButtonClicked(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieTarget.gotoAndStop(2);
MovieDescription.gotoAndStop("Two");
button1.visible = true; // here button1 will go back to its orignal state
button2.visible = false // here the greyed button will show

Variables inside movie clips?? in Flash CS4 (AS3)

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if it is possible to have variables such as Int 's stored inside or together with a movie clip??
Thank you!

Yes, you can store them inside manually when you create the movieclip or you can assign a variable to a movieclip during run time without having created the variable previously.
myMovieclip.newVariable = some value;

Buttons inside movie clip dont work

I have a simple HTML website with 5 buttons one of which, a movie clip, drops down 3 more buttons but the buttons dont always work. I get wierd issues for instance: whether I'm on the mcs page or another page completly the drop down buttons only work when Im on the parent movie clips page. When the buttons do work and you click on the button of the page your on they only work once then the whole issue repeats itself. Hopefully to clarify here is the code inside of the movie clip that directs the drop down buttons.
stop();
var cdButton:URLRequest= new URLRequest("character desin.html");
cd_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, cd);
function cd(event:MouseEvent):void
        navigateToURL(cdButton,"_self");
var caButton:URLRequest= new URLRequest("concept art.html");
ca_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ca);
function ca(event:MouseEvent):void
        trace("ca_btn");
        navigateToURL(caButton,"_self");
var dsButton:URLRequest= new URLRequest("draw sketch.html");
ds_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ds);
function ds(event:MouseEvent):void
        trace("ds_btn");
        navigateToURL(dsButton,"_self");

From what I see you are trying to somehow program a Actionscript only iframe navigation. That will never work without an external Interface call to the Browsers Javascript. This is complicated stuff and surely not what you have in mind. If concept art, draw sketch etc. are all separate swf files, you should load them (instead of the html you embedded them in)

How to add button inside move clip and call it from main timeline?

Hi,
On the main timeline I have a movie clip called clock_mc and playBtn
playBtn is placed in the center of clock_mc
When you press playBtn clock_mc starts playing
playBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playClock);
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        clock_mc.play();
        playBtn.visible = false;
        trace ("play button was clicked");
This is working fine for me.
But I want to add replayBtn to the last frame of clock_mc and set up the function on main Timeline.
Another words when the clock_mc rich last frame you see replayBtn.
code example:
replayBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playClock);
    if (event.target == replayBtn)
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        trace ("replay button was clicked");
I've tryed to placed the replayBtn on the stage on the main timeline and I've set it up to replayBtn.visible = false;
And then I add replayBtn.visible = true; to last AS frame of clock_mc but it wont work
Even when I put the button physically to the last frame of clock_mc it will not work either.
Please help

I've solved the problem:-)
I've set replayBtn.visible = false; on first frame of clock_mc
and replayBtn.visible = true; at the last frame
and than as you sugested I'v add:
clock_mc.replayBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, replayClock);
function replayClock(event:MouseEvent):void
        clock_mc.play();
        trace ("replay button was clicked");
I couldn't see replayBtn at the firs stage because I have clockTween assosiated with clock:
clockTween = new Tween(clock_mc, "x", Regular.easeOut, -469,438, .5, true);
and I had replyBtn in the wrong place so when clock_mc was coming up on the stage replayBtn was on the left side of the stage :/
Now I have to solve only one thing.
Maybe you would have any suggestions please.
I've set up stop(); in a first frame of clock_mc
that when you see clock_mc sliding in it has to wait for playBtn to be clicked
because I have two tween:
        clockTween = new Tween(clock_mc, "x", Regular.easeOut, -469,438, .5, true);
        playTween = new Tween(playBtn, "x", Regular.easeOut, -720,514, .5, true);
        playBtn.visible = true;
so when you click on playBtn:
function playClock(event:MouseEvent):void
    if (event.target == playBtn)
        clock_mc.play();
        playBtn.visible = false;
        trace ("play button was clicked");
everythink is working fine except when I clik on replayBtn it play for I sec because there is stop(); on the first frame of clock_mc

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.
Regards
Urami
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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
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"rossmurphy88" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ff2d0c$531$[email protected]..
>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.
>

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It is literally displaying a Latin translation of what is supposed to be in English. E.g. on the Word Press web site, or others, part of the demo sites are in Latin, usually the main general presentation part.

Can you give an example link?
Does it start out like:
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I have made some vids on my iPad, uploaded them to iMovie no problem. I watched the sequence and deleted some blunders etc. This left the long film strip into clips which still plays fine. I re-filmed one section and loaded that into my project. iMovie automatically put it at the end of the project. It won't let me drag and drop it to a new area. I'm able to select it, but when I try to move it, its simply returned back to the end of the project.

Ash435 wrote:
Same for me on my dual-disk SSD/HD MBP. It's a 2008 machine but all OS and software is up to date. (Managed user account)
Works fine on another (newer) MBP. (Admin user account)
Did anyone ever solve this?
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Hello. I am using Adobe Flash CS6.
As this topic title says. how to stop Timer event nside movieclip that does not exist?
I mean my fla stracture is there are 2 frames on main timeline, and I put mcA on frame 2.
And I put a button on root that does
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I need to stop T_TImer from root on frame 1, not on frame 2.
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I get TypeError: Error #1010 error.
I don't know how to stop this timer event. I have to stop it from root, and I can't use EVENT_REMOVED in this case.

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