Cutting out an animation from a background

Hello! I'm a flash noob and I just created my first animation of a plant "growing up", following the tutorial here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyUhrR4wLoA. It worked wonders: I basically drew a few lines, transformed it to symbol, created a new mask and script layer, and just used a brush to cover a part of the image on every frame in order to give the illusion of appearance. However, I don't need a background, I just need to cut the animation and make it an independent SWF. Any help to solve this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance!

You cannot remove a background directly in Flash. however what do you intend to do with the Flash once it is completed ? put it in some Html page ?
In that case, in your HTML page, do the following 3 step in the <object> section of your Flash script:
Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag:
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag: wmode="transparent"
Edit all <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> and replace the "opaque" (or whatever it may be) with "transparent"
You will have a flash with transparent background working on all navigator.
It should look something like this: ( I've put in bold the part that interest you.)
<object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="950" height="580">
      <param name="movie" value="Video/Menu.swf" />
      <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
      <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
      <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
      <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
      <param name="embed" value="wmode="transparent"" />
      <param name="selectable" value="false" />
      <param name="border" value="0" />
      <param name="embed" value="border="0"" />
     <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="Video/Menu.swf" width="950" height="580">
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
        <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
        <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />
        <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />
        <param name="embed" value="wmode="transparent"" />
        <param name="selectable" value="false" />
        <param name="border" value="0" />
        <param name="embed" value="border="0"" />
        <div>
          <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
          <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
        </div>
      </object>
      </object>
Hope that help
Message was edited by: Chorale0001

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