Hey there. I am going to be working on storyboards and I need to make sure

Question

Hey there. I'm getting Flash CS4 very soon. I am going to be working on a project in which I'll need ...let me describe the feature.
1) Import a bitmap (which is a storyboard picture)
2) Place bitmaps into timeline (storyboards are put into the timeline)
3) I need flash to update the bitmaps on the fly when they change on my hard drive.
The storyboards will be in a format where there is only text at the bottom taken from the screenplay that tells what to draw. I need to piece them together, then as I get the storyboards from my employees I need to update them on my hard drive, and I need flash to update them within the movie project.
Windows Movie Maker does this. When you import a picture, it updates that picture from the hard drive, so if you make a change to it it is automatically updated within your movie project.
Does Flash CS4 have this feature? Also, technically, what would you call that feature?

Answer 1

If you import an image, and then at a later time import the same image again, you can have it replace the old one.  When you try to import it, Flash will recognize it is a duplicate item by its name and give you the choice to replace the duplicate content or not.
I don't know what the ultimtae goal of your Flash file will be (pardon my ignorance if you explained that earlier), but having a dynamic solution might be easier to manage.  You could just create the Flash file such that it reads an xml data file that has the images listed in the order they appear, and have your Flash file load those images and order them for display based on the order in the xml file.  That way you only have to update the xml file.
If your plans involve creating many storyboards over time, you could possibly make a generic Flash file that when you run it, it prompts you for the xml filename to be used, and then executes loading all the images for whatever review purpose they are serving.... just thinking out loud.