Converting an image sequence to a Movie Clip - Flash CC

Hi Everyone,
Hopefully I am just doing this wrong.
I have a sequence of images I want to convert to a movie clip symbol.
This is what I'm doing:
I select all the frames in the timeline and hit f8 & choose movie clip as the symbol type.
When I drop the newly created symbol back on the stage it only contains the very last frame
of the animation.
Is this just not possible?

You can do this. Here are the steps:
1. Select desired frames
2. Copy frames
3. Create movie clip symbol
4. Paste frames into movie clip symbol
If this is something you do frequently, there are extensions that streamline this process.
Edit: Here's a link to the extension "New Anim Clip". It's about a third the way down the page.
http://www.toonmonkey.com/extensions.html

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after importing, select the entire range of keyframes
containing your image sequence. Right-click
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tomwood2 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use LightWave 3D to create a set of characters that
are simple talking
> heads. Composited in Mirage and edited in VT4, it's all
bitmap images. You can
> see a sample here:
>
> www.subversive-entertainment.com
>
> That version was intended for TV but isn't going to
sell. I'd like to try it
> as an animated editorial cartoon embedded in a Flash
player at online
> newspapers. But when I compress the video it doesn't
convert as cleanly as I
> know a direct Flash file would. I'd like to import the
image sequences into
> Flash and converting them to symbols(?) or movie
clips(?) or(?)...
>
> What would be the best way to handle the image sequences
in Flash? They are
> currently 180 frames long for each character, but I
could reduce the image
> sequence to as little as 60 frames. Once the image
sequence is converted to a
> set of symbols(?) they would be re-used over and over.
>
> I imported a 180 frame image sequence and it put one
image on each frame in
> the Flash timeline. How would I convert that entire
image seqence to a sequence
> of symbols(?) that I could re-use. When I exported it as
a movie it made a .swf
> file that looks great but I don't think that's what I
want to work with within
> Flash. (I'll create a differnt background in FLash as
well.)
>
> Whew,
>
> Hope this made sense.
>
> TW
>

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[code]
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[code]
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[/code]
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[code]
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[/code]
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Found the solution that worked (used ._xscale and ._yscale
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[code]
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[/code]

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