Creating a sprite

ok here is the deal. I want a flock of birds to fly accross
my web page. so I went to poser and rendered a bird in flight as 60
separate frames in ping format so there wouldn't be any background.
I then imported all the frames into the flash library and created
60 different layers each one with one of the frames of the bird
flying. When i play the movie the bird looks pretty good. I do not
however know how to turn these 60 layers into one flying bird. How
do i convert the layers into a sprite that I can then duplicate and
move around? something that can be exported so that I can use it on
other projects and pages?

look under help docs for "symbols" - the basic building block
of Flash - if there's one thing
everyone learns first in Flash - Symbols is it.
Open Library and from drop down menu create a new symbol -
you will want to select and copy frames
of your image sequence and paste frames into this new symbol
- now you can drag instances of this
symbol to the stage multiple times.
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
shadowrelm wrote:
> ok here is the deal. I want a flock of birds to fly
accross my web page. so I
> went to poser and rendered a bird in flight as 60
separate frames in ping
> format so there wouldn't be any background. I then
imported all the frames into
> the flash library and created 60 different layers each
one with one of the
> frames of the bird flying. When i play the movie the
bird looks pretty good.
> I do not however know how to turn these 60 layers into
one flying bird. How do
> i convert the layers into a sprite that I can then
duplicate and move around?
> something that can be exported so that I can use it on
other projects and pages?
>

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