Flash to animated gif

Hi all,
I have a flash movie that I needed to convert to animated gif
for display in an email. My flash movie has 4 main movieclips, and
housed inside these clips are the animations. I inserted a stop()
function on each of these clips and once the first clip runs
finish, I used _parent.play() to activate the next clip and so on.
However, when I tried to convert to an animated gif, it seems that
only 4 frames are exported at the first level. Is there any
solution to this?
Thanks!

You could export it as a Quicktime movie and then convert it
to an animated gif.

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