Inserting/animating a pre-existing SWF file

We don't have After Effects yet on our new computers, so I'm
sort of stumped on how to do this with Flash...
I animated a butterfly that flaps his wings without moving on
a path or changing size. I now have to insert this animated
butterfly into another scene where he'll fly into frame and land on
a logo.
How do I do this?
(Flash Pro 8 on a Mac)

If you're coming from AfterEffects, be prepared to endure
some pain ;-)
You can't exactly do anything like pre-compose to your scene
like in AE, but you can copy/paste the frames from the scene into a
symbol. So take your animated butterfly .fla, highlight all the
frames in the timeline, right click on it, choose "copy frames".
Go to your other FLA, insert a new Graphic Symbol, and right
click the timeline and choose "paste frames".
At this stage, if you want to re-align objects on all frames,
you would use Onion skin with "edit multiple frames"(button located
in bottom left of timeline). You can drag the handles to encompess
the entire timeline, make sure no layers are locked, hit Cmd+A for
select all, and then move them on the canvas.
HTH

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