Naming clips ALREADY on stage dynamically

I have a design with a group of lights already on the
stage...there are a LOT of them so giving them all an instance name
would take to long, how do I dynamically give a group of movie
clips instance names if they are already on the stage? I am trying
to create a type of twinkle effect but I need to be able to layout
everything on the stage the way I want it instead of using one of
the many tutorials I have found where someone creates the movie
clips and the stars(lights) dynamically.
Thanks!

If you did not already give them instance names in the
authoring environment, Flash assigns them names for you.
Nedwebs script will trace what those names are put you can
either rename each clip dynamically or simply push the default
names in an array and and then manipulate them dynamically.

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Dynamically adding multiple instances of a movie clip to the stage with one button

hello,
I was wondering if there was a way to add several instances
of the same movie clip to the stage dynamically utilizing one
button.
I can do one with the following code placed on the button...
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
filled1._x = 370;
filled1._y = 225;
But I want the user to be able to hit the button again and
get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the stage.
I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
around...
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Muhl

Muhl,
> I was wondering if there was a way to add several
> instances of the same movie clip to the stage
> dynamically utilizing one button.
Sure thing.
> I can do one with the following code placed on the
> button...
>
> on (release) {
> attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
> filled1._x = 370;
> filled1._y = 225;
> }
Gotcha.
> But I want the user to be able to hit the button again
> and get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the
> stage.
You're in luck, because this isn't very hard to do. The main
thing to
keep in mind is that each instance must have A) its own
unique instance name
and B) its own unique depth. In your example, the instance
name is filled1
and the depth is 5. The next clip's instance name should be
filled2 at a
depth of 6. Then filled3, depth 7, and so on. You can use a
single
variable to handle the incrementation.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
// code on your button
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter, counter +
4);
With me so far? The variable counter contains the numeric
value 1. The
second parameter of attachMovie() is provided with a
concatenation of
"filled" + 1, which makes "filled1". The third parameter is
provided with
the sum of counter plus 4, which makes 5. Obviously, we need
a bit more.
The button must, in addition, increment the value of counter.
The ++
operator handles this perfectly.
on (release) {
attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter, counter +
4);
counter++;
Now, it seems you also want to position the attached movie
clip to (370,
225). Are they call supposed to go to the same place? If so,
you may use a
second variable to hold a reference to the newly attached
clip. Look up
MovieClip.attachMovie(), and you'll see that the method
returns the exact
reference you need.
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
var mc:MovieClip;
// code on your button
on (release) {
mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
counter + 4);
counter++;
mc._x = 370;
mc._y = 225;
Make sense?
> I also want the user to be able to drag these instances
> around...
Then you need to handle a few events. You're dealing with
movie clips
here, so your best bet is to study up on the MovieClip class,
which defines
all movie clips. (Note, also, that the TextField class
defines all input
and dynamic text fields; the Sound class defines all sounds,
etc. This is a
very handy arrangement of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.)
// code in a frame
var counter:Number = 1;
var mc:MovieClip;
// code on your button
on (release) {
mc = attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled" + counter,
counter + 4);
counter++;
mc._x = 370;
mc._y = 225;
mc.onPress = function() {
this.startDrag();
mc.onRelease = function() {
this.stopDrag();
Easy as that. You're simply assigning a function literal to
the event
of each new MovieClip instance as you create it. Take a look
and you'll see
each of these class members available to you -- that is, to
all movie clips.
MovieClip.onPress, MovieClip.startDrag(), MovieClip._x, etc.
Wherever it shows the term MovieClip in the Language
Reference, just
replace that with the instance name of your clip -- or a
reference to that
clip (which even includes the global "this" property).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Imovie on my ipad ...refuses to recognize AVCHD Video. Also when i remove video clips already used in a project, it is unable to recognize missing clips after I've put them back. How do I get around these 2 issues?

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Hi Craig,
I also got the second problem. The storyboard on iMovie trailer has all these missing videos. If I import them on my iPad it doesn't find them.
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How do i see video clips already imported in to an event?

How do i see video clips already imported in to an event?
I have already created and shared one movie project from the clips and from photos but now want to make another. However, when i go to the library it only shows me the content of the first project, including the photos, not all of the video clips i originally imported. I can't believe that I need to import them all again.

It seems to me that you must have imported your clips using iMovie 9, (that's why they are all in the Events folder which belongs to iMovie 9). Then you must have upgraded your current project to iMovie 10 which will have put the clips used in that project (but not all the others) into your iMovie 10 library. iMovie 10 has a totally different storage arrangement for media. You should be able to update your other iMovie 9 projects by choosing File > Update Projects and Events in iMovie 10. See: http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0.8/#/mov902ad0c31
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Naming Clips

Just upgraded from iMovie HD to iMovie '09. Is it possible to "name" clips so that they can be easily identified in the clips pane? Video taping sporting events can result in over 100 clips in a single event. By naming clips (iMovie HD), I could keep track of certain plays that I needed to use during the editing of a movie. And, over a whole sports season, I have to keep highlights from every game in order to put a full season DVD together. What a waste of time to have to search through so many clips to find just the one I need and all because there's no way to differentiate them from the others. The colored lines are not enough!

I have a similar problem...
Being new to iMovie, I thought things were going smoothly when I plugged in my new helmet cam and imported 40 clips of downhill biking. I went to the trouble to adjust the time/date stamp and even name all the clips.
Next I fired up iMovie... and preceded to get slightly ****** off. Those couple hours of work appear to have been in vain. iMovie appears to ignore all of that info. Is this correct?
And if so, how does a user go about identifying a particular clip amongst dozens that look nearly identical. In this scenario, they're all of the same race course so they don't look much different at first glance.
Is there anyway at all to see the file name or even better, the info that I typed into iPhoto? I'm really hoping so because otherwise using iMovie will be incredibly frusterating. There might as well be no preview or scrubbing at all. Imagine how difficult that would be. That's basically what i'm dealing with... in attempting to find a particular clip among many similar clips.

Attaching Dynamic Movie Clips on a Stage Movie Clip

Hi guys ,
I am calling more images in dynamic movieclip on the stage
from XML file and show them on the stage after that evry movieclip
is draggable and there is lots of labels (movieclips) on which i
have to drag the images called from xml files and placed on that
label , label is also draggable once when i placed object on the
label moviecli then when i drag the label all images placed in side
the label should also move with the label .
And there might be more labels and more images , i can place
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Ok if I understand you, you have several movieclips on the
stage that are created dynamically. Some of them are called
"labels" and some are images. You want to drag and drop an image
onto a label. Then when you do that you want the image to become a
child movieclip of the label movieclip. That way when you drag the
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Movie Clips vs the Stage help me out plz

Before i start i currently am taking a class on flash and i
dont think we have gone terribly in depth.
I have 2 sets of Code one in a Movie Clip and another on the
Stage.
the issue i have is neither one can see variables from the
other. is there some special syntax or notation i need to pass the
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I cant see the Current Unit in the Button

Syntactically your code is just fine. I didn’t receive
any errors when I checked it. However I would rearrange some things
in it. The 2 eventhandlers in the onEnterFrame function, I would
pull these out and put them outside of the onEnterFrame function
but on the same frame.
“the issue i have is neither one can see variables from
the other. is there some special syntax or notation i need to pass
the variables”
Inside that mc, the code that you have below “//Code in
Button”, it is typically recommended that you don’t
reference other movieclips by using ‘_levelX’. Use a
relative path, such as ‘this._parent” or
“this._parent._parent” depending on how many movieclips
are nested into it. Also note, when you reference a movieclip from
inside an eventHandler (onPress, onRelease, onEnterFrame, etc.) you
are already within an object. So to reference something on the same
tier you should use ‘this._parent’. Once you find the
correct tier by using the code I mentioned in the last sentence,
you then need to attach the instance name of the movieclip you are
trying to access (that is if you are trying to access a movieclip).
For an example, ‘this._parent.currentguy’.
I hope this helps, I understand it may be hard to grasp
however give it a shot and post back.
You may be interested in this link that is from the livedocs;
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context= LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001220.html

Converting video clips already edited in timeline?

Hey guys, excuse my noobiness, I am in fact one.
I recently have learned that before importing my footage from my canon g20 into FCPX it's best to convert the files to .mov. first of all, is that correct?
assuming it is i got the brorsoft video converter for mac which i havent used yet, but from what i gather it's pretty easy to import files from my camera into there, then export them as .mov files to make it easier for FCPX to work with them. Let me know if all that is correct.
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its rendering now, we'll see. I really appreciate your help Tom, thank you.
as i mentioned earlier, i got some software called "video converter" for mac by a company brorsoft. I can import whatever the file type is off the canon g20 (still unsure what file type it is exactly) and then export it as any file type i want.
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Sharepoint 2010 two stage dynamic approval

I have an infopath form that needs to be first routed to a selected reviewer and then that reviewer selects approvers from a picklist. This looks like the Staged OOTB approval process, but how do I dynamically change the approvers in the 2nd stage. The WF
needs to wait for the reviewer to select reviewer (in parallel). I'm looking for a no code solution if possible.

Hi,
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Load movie clip with a conditional dynamic text. IF...else...

I have two dynamic texts, both of them are going to generate numbers. If one has a greater value then the other one, a movie clip must be loaded, else, another movie clip must be loaded.

assuming you meant they're input textfields, use Event.CHANGE listeners to determine when a user changes the text property of those textfields.
tf1.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,textF);
tf2.addEventListener(Event.CHANGE,textF);
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Naming clip without altering the original clip name

Hi
I'm looking for a way to naming a clip without altering the original clip name.
For example:
I've got a clip called D066_140825_001_AA1663, which I need to preserve. But I would like to add an additonal name in a different box.
Ideally it would look something like this:
Name                                        Description
D066_140825_001_AA1663     Erica is moving the sofa
D066_140825_001_AA1664     Erica is driving
D066_140825_001_AA1665     Erica and John meets
etc.
I see that in the Premiere project window there's a row called Description. Are there a way for me to add a clip description from Prelude, or name the clips in any other way?

Hi SMOlsen,
Please check the below link and check if it helps.
http://helpx.adobe.com/prelude/using/prelude-logging-video.html#id_52195
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Made a big mistake when re-naming clips

My HD learning curve is getting steeper by the minute...
Ok, I've spent the entire day capturing HD footage for the first time. Figured it out ok and everything imported fine as ProRes 422. So far so good.
I needed to change a some clip names to keep things as simple as possible and I read in a tutorial that I needed to rename the files on the scratch disc to keep everything the same. I re-named all the clips in the bin though, even the ones I didn't change and now those clips don't play and I get a general error box popping up.
Is there a way I can get this clips back? They are on the scratch disc, just not playing from the browser.
Thanks again
Adrian

brew guy wrote:
I needed to change a some clip names to keep things as simple as possible and I read in a tutorial that I needed to rename the files on the scratch disc to keep everything the same. I re-named all the clips in the bin though, even the ones I didn't change and now those clips don't play and I get a general error box popping up.
Adrian
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Hello Flash Forum,
I am using the loadmovie method to load a swf file into a
movie clip "container"
Code snippet:
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The movie clip I load does not have a stop action in frame 1,
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I've tried the code you suggested but it doesn't seem to work
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option to publish as 'actionscript 1.0 or 2.0' is the script you
supplied an actionscript 3.0?
Below is the script with the amendments, I've changed my
button instance names to match the script you supplied (left_btn /
right_btn)
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import mx.transitions.easing.Strong;
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rposX, time, false);
new Tween(content1, '_y', Strong.easeOut, content1._y,
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new Tween(content1, '_y', Strong.easeOut, content1._y,
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Copy your clip, use the End key to go to the end of the timeline. Paste then drag to Video2. When it is over the original clip it will 'snap' into place for you.
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