Choppy movie clips and scenes

I am having a problem in which I have movie clips containing
tweens in a file containing two scenes. On publishing, the movie
clips in Scene A play fine, but the clips within Scene B are very
choppy -- they appear to be playing only the first and last frames
of a tween.
The tweens themselves are definitely OK -- sometimes it
happens that the clips from Scene B play fine, but then the ones
from Scene A don't work.
To see specifically what is happening, you can go to
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/local/danvers_explosion/interactive_graphic/
The file is done in two scenes -- one for the content under
the "The Blast" tab and one for that under "Getting Out." The
pulsing arrows on the map in "The Blast" are movie clips with
motion tweens, and these are working correctly. Go to "Getting
Out," though, and the explosion symbol on that map is supposed to
expand and fade out, but as you can see, it's not working. But as I
said, sometimes that clip plays fine, but then the arrows (and
other clips in "The Blast") don't work.
This is not the first time I've run into this bug, so I don't
think it is anything project-specific. Anybody have any
ideas?

dont think it is a "bug" because scenes dont exist in the
compiled SWF - they are only for managing
your FLA timeline.
example: say you have 2 scenes 100 frames each. Upon export
to SWF, frame 1 in scene 2 is really
frame 101.
perhaps you just need a preloader?
can you provide the FLA?
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fredward23 wrote:
> I am having a problem in which I have movie clips
containing tweens in a file
> containing two scenes. On publishing, the movie clips in
Scene A play fine, but
> the clips within Scene B are very choppy -- they appear
to be playing only the
> first and last frames of a tween.
>
> The tweens themselves are definitely OK -- sometimes it
happens that the clips
> from Scene B play fine, but then the ones from Scene A
don't work.
>
> To see specifically what is happening, you can go to
>
>
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/local/danvers_explosion/interactive_graphic/
>
> The file is done in two scenes -- one for the content
under the "The Blast"
> tab and one for that under "Getting Out." The pulsing
arrows on the map in "The
> Blast" are movie clips with motion tweens, and these are
working correctly. Go
> to "Getting Out," though, and the explosion symbol on
that map is supposed to
> expand and fade out, but as you can see, it's not
working. But as I said,
> sometimes that clip plays fine, but then the arrows (and
other clips in "The
> Blast") don't work.
>
> This is not the first time I've run into this bug, so I
don't think it is
> anything project-specific. Anybody have any ideas?
>

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I want to use the function like this " fSwitch("movie1",
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I`ve checked to see if I had typoes but I don`t and the
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In spite of this fact , when I test the code or movie i get
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**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 32:
There is no property with the name '_x'.
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if that's what you're trying to do you'll need to find some other
way to accomplish your goal.

Can I copy a single frame from a movie clip and paste it over a bad blank frame in the same clip?

I have two frames in my video clip that are solid green. I would like to copy the last good frame and paste over the green video frames for the movie to play without the green frames popping up. Is thispossible?

You can install an App called MPEG Streamclip or you can simply pull up the clip in full screen and take a screen shot using (command+shift+3) or using (command+shift+4) to click and drag to create a box around what you would like to take a snap shot of.

Rollover one invisible movie clip and make a different one visible and the reverse

This is a very simple thing I want to do: show informational popups when an area of the screen is rolled over. I was able to get this working in action script 3 with MouseEventListener and the visible =true/false property but can't seem to get it working correctly in AS2. I need AS2 for backward compatability with Captivate.

You can use true/false in AS2, but 0/1 should work as well.
THe way you have it, it can't go invisible...
You set the object invisible with the first line, but then make it visible again later on, so one of them, I suspect the latter needs to go.
Also, in your rollout function you have a typo. You are missing a "." before _visible...
companyTxt_visible = 0; // typo
companyTxt._visible = 0; // no typo

Illegal to edit movie trailers and scenes?

I've seen this done a lot on YouTube and such, and wanted to try it out for myself. So, I downloaded the new trailer for "The Dark Knight", and I thought I'd mess around with it a little bit (audio and video effects) and see if I could make anything entertaining. But, before putting it on YouTube, I wanted to know if this is in any way illegal, because I don't want to get in any trouble. Please don't flame me, I'm new to this (video editing).
Thanks!

Well of course this isn't really the place to ask for legal advise and I am not a lawyer. So my advice is worth about what you are paying for it, nothing.
But in my OPINION, if you are making some sort of parody, it probably falls under those guidelines for fair use. Of course if You Tube decides it doesn't or the original copyright holder complains, then they will likely just yank it. But considering all the other blatant copyright infringement up there (people posting unedited originals that they have no right to), yours will probably fall way to the bottom of their list of concerns.
Patrick

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