Movie Clip Loop

I have some quite nice clips that I would like to use as screen savers.
So can I make them into a loop?-chatch

HI Bengt, Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I still haven't got it to work. I did as you advised, but when I clicked on the new QT folder, I got the message "contains no picture". As one can put music in loops, I would have thought there was an easy way to put film clips in loops!
Anyway, Thanks again-chatch

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Hopefully someone here will have an answer for you. In the meantime you might also wish to post this question in the forums for Acrobat.
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into stage.
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Incubusguy wrote:
> My problem first appeared very simple, but I have spent
a while on it and can't
> think how to solve it. I must say that I am very much an
amateur in designing
> in Flash and ActionScript.
>
> I created a movie clip containing an embedded video and
a sound clip. In the
> main timeline I inserted the movie clip into a keyframe.
When I found the movie
> clip didn't play, I discovered that the only way of
making it play was to place
> a Stop action in the keyframe of the movie clip, and
also set the whole movie
> to loop. The Stop action stopped the whole movie from
looping, but instead made
> the movie clip loop. If the keyframe is on frame 456,
how do I make it advance
> onto frame 457 once the movie clip has finished running?
>
> I've tried various ways around the problem, including
placing a button inside
> the movie clip to Go to and Play frame 457, but instead
it plays frame 457 in
> the movie clip.
>
> Can anyone help me with this please?
>
>

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