Cs4 flash movie clip question

I have started this animation and I am turning rain drops into movie clips with a small splash animation in the clip.I can just copy and paste them so I won't have to animate each one or do programming. When I test this with the swf file they turn out fine. But when I try to export this into a jpeg/png,or avi the full animation in the movie clip doesn't work.It just shows the first frame.Is there a way to make this work since I would really like the single jgep files or avi since I need to transfer this to other programs. I thought there was a way to do this but I cannot remember or I don't know if they changed it with cs4 XD.

Oh I am sorry I didn't say what I mean clearly XD. I want export it as a image jpeg sequence so I would have the many frames to import else where. But also I would like different single shots to show as previews as well. But when I try to do that the movie clips are not moving slowly in each image.
And I keep trying to do avi's but the movie clips are still not working.

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"Mark A. Boyd" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Gary posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:
>
>> Thanks for your reply, but no, it does not have
anything to do with
>> it... I put up another flash movie that I had
created and it played
>> fine... it is this one file that was created from a
movie file....
>>
>> The flash movie in question plays fine on my
desktop, plays fine in DW
>> in the design view, but once uploaded it does not
view....it is there,
>> but you cannot see it...so I am thinking it is a DW
issue...or should I
>> say an issue I can solve with DW
>
> No, it's not a DW issue. Even when I go directly to
>
http://www.unitexpaving.com/unitexmoviepat.swf
as linked on the page, I
> get
> the same 404 errors.
>
> That .swf file is looking for that .flv file with the
long name with
> spaces
> in it, and for ClearOverPlaySeekMute.swf
>
> You say you converted an MPEG file to a .swf file. Did
you remember to
> upload
> that file? It will likely be MUCH larger than the 33.5KB
> unitexmoviepat.swf
> file I'm getting.
>
>
>> "Mark A. Boyd" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>>
news:[email protected]...
>>> Gary posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:
>>>
>>>> I cant seem to get a flash movie to play. It
was originally a MPG
>>>> that I first tried convertinng to a flash
movie via the Flash Video
>>>> Encoder...that does not seem to want to
play.
>>>>
>>>> Then I imported the MPG file into flash,
converted it to a SWF...and I
>>>> can play it on my decktop, but will not play
once uploaded. I can play
>>>> it in DW, but not on the web.
>>>>
>>>> I know there is something there..
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have a suggestion??
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.unitexpaving.com/unitexmovie1.html
>>>
>>> Anything to do with these missing files?
>>>
>>>
http://www.unitexpaving.com/Templates/Header.png
>>> HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
>>>
>>>
http://www.unitexpaving.com/ClearOverPlaySeekMute.swf
>>> HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
>>>
>>> (I believe that is the file that contains the
video controls)
>>>
>>>
http://www.unitexpaving.com/Pictures%20downloaded%20on%20August%20%2015%
>>> 20%20 2008%20638.flv
>>> HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
>>>
>>> That is the actual .flv video file.
>>>
>>> Note1: Your Web server is case-sensitive for
filenames.
>>> Note2: Remove the spaces in the .flv filename
and in the link to it for
>>> best
>>> compatibility.
>>> Note3: The yellow-on-white text in your address
div is extremely hard
>>> to read.
>
>
> --
> Mark A. Boyd
> Keep-On-Learnin' :)

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