Something I Would Like to see in Flash

Question

When creating animations I start with the final image and
then animate the elements into position e.g. If I am animating the
word FRY onto the screen then I would place the artwork for the
word on screen and then create 3 seperate movies to animate the F
coming from the left, Y from the right and then R from the top.
The problem comes if the client changes something e.g. if
they want the R (only) to be in a different font. In this example
the animation for the 'F' movie would need to move to the left ...
but the problem is that you do not know how far to the left to move
it because you can not see the end position of the animation on
screen.
What I would like is the ability to select a frame in a movie
as the frame that is seen in movies which contain it (in this case
I would mark the end one) rather than the current 'default' of
frame 1. This has two advantages...
1) If only part of an animation needs changing you can easily
see where to move the other elements. (Whilst the above example
would be easy to do without this - it is not so easy when you have
animations inside animations inside animations.)
2) If the aniimation starts with a blank frame then it
becomes MUCH easier to find it on screen. (The current circle that
appears can be hard to find and hard to click on).
I realise that this would be a non-trivial change to
implement - but I can hope.

Answer 1

Onion skinning is very useful, but it only works (as far as I
can tell) for graphics that exist in the current movie. What I
don't think it allows for is for the following...
Put two graphics on screen.
Turn the first graphic into a movie (movie 'A') with 2
frames. Make the first frame blank and keep the graphic in the 2nd.
Return to the top layer, you now will not see the graphic as
it only shows frame 1 of movie 'A' and not frame 2.
Repeat for the second graphic (creating movie 'B') so you now
have 2 movies on the sceen, but there is nothing visible.
Now what I would like to be able to do is see Frame 2 (or any
specified frame) of the movies on screen instead of Frame 1. If,
for example, you changed the graphic in movie 'A' you can not see
how the new movie will look with BOTH the graphics in 'A' and 'B'
visible at the same time. You can run the movie but if the relative
position of the 2 graphics is off then there is no easy way of
positioning them correctly.
Obviously with only 2 frames and 2 movies you can use other
methods, but if they form part of a long and complex animation with
movies inside movies inside movies then it becomes very difficult
to make such changes.