Flash background animation

i've been looking for a way to make my flash website include
a background animation whicjh runs independantly, meaning it will
be uneffected by scene switching.
my main flash movie has been published to run in the center
of the browser, leaving large margins depending on resolution.
what i want to do now is make a background animation which
fills the browser, however the visibility of it 'wont' be effected
by resolution, it instead will be clipped.
to give an example of what im trying to do, please look at
this website and check out how the background is represented:
www.projectiva.co.uk
the only solution i can think of (but dont kow how its done)
is to create a second flash movie with a fixed but large size
running in the background whilst the main movie uses a transparent
background. im just guessing this is what they did on that site.
any ideas?
thank you
flosculus

Hi Lee Tempest1,
Q: I have created a Flash animation that I wish to use as a background within iDVD 6.
A: You don't. It's not recommended in iDVD6.
This may help:
Preparing QuickTime movies to work with iDVD
If your video-editing application can export to QuickTime, you can create movies that you can add to your iDVD project. iDVD supports most video or image files supported by QuickTime.
QuickTime movies smaller than the standard DVD size of 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL) are scaled to fit the DVD window, which may decrease the image quality.
For best results, in the QuickTime export settings of your video-editing application, choose NTSC-DV with a frame rate of 29.97 or PAL-DV with a frame rate of 25. Choose No Compression for audio and set the sample rate to 48 kHz.
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