Movie Clips in sequence

Hello everyone,
Question, If you want to play serval movie clips in a row how
do you set that up on the time line? Do you use one frame for each
movie clip or do you need the same number of frams in the main
timeline as there is in the movie clip.
What I am trying to accomplish is to play 4 or 5 movie clips
in sequence. want to build them individually for editing purposes
in the future
Thanks
Vorean

vorean wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Question, If you want to play serval movie clips in a
row how do you set that
> up on the time line? Do you use one frame for each movie
clip or do you need
> the same number of frams in the main timeline as there
is in the movie clip.
>
> What I am trying to accomplish is to play 4 or 5 movie
clips in sequence. want
> to build them individually for editing purposes in the
future
>
you could have stop(); action in all these clips first frame.
Than in the last frame of each clip
_root.NextClipName.play();
So the stop(): prevent them from running and last frame
action
kicks in next one to play, once done, another one and so
on...
Regards
Urami
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    > Hello everyone,
    >
    >
    > Question, If you want to play serval movie clips in a
    row how do you set that
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