Timeline animation events

Hello Forum
I learning how to use Flex Builder 3 to build a as3 project.
I prepared a timeline into animation in Flash CS4 which I've exported as a .swc file.
What options do I have to gain access to the timeline animation? I'd like to know when the intro animation has finished playing for example... What kind of events do I have to register to that would listen to manually created timeline animations?
Thanks for guiding me through this adventure...
sk

Thank you Justin. That's very helpful. The class looks interesting. I started using it. So far so good.
The onEnterFrame event could work as well. It seems like a lot of unnecessary overhead though...
Thank you.
sk

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I'm hoping someone can help me out! I'm quite new to flash but slowly getting the hang of it. I'm trying to make an interactive banner using jpegs converted to buttons etc with type, all animated. I've got separate layers for everything including mask layers and actions. I just want to navigate on a top layer which is invisible to take the user to a new URL. Everything is working great until I put more than one URL link in the code, as soon as I do the whole banner animation stops!!
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btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1Click_1);
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn2Click_2);
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Thanks Ned and moccamaximum for the replies.
The last bit of code does apply to the whole timeline as it stops the animation with a Mouse Over/Roll Over. Taking this away has no effect on the animation in the timeline. The only thing that seems to stop the timeline animation is the second button URL request!
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn2Click_2);
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In CS3 I was able to export animations into .SWF files but with CS6 I cant seem to find out how to do this? The only option is .MP4 via File>Export>Render Video but thats no good to me. I've searched high and low for this answer but have come up with nothing!
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Regards,
Hannes Drexl

My only solution so far is to avoid using CC and sticking with CS6. Thanks Adobe for not letting me enjoy the other great features of the PS version you seem to care about updating and improving. Since PS is the main reason I even subscribed to creative cloud, it would be nice to at least know this problem is being resolved in the future.

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Final Cut X is an awesome video editing program - great job with all of the updates you've been pushing out!!
There's something that I would love to see in Final Cut Pro X that would enhance the editors ability to organize. I'd love to see timelines in the Event folder - like the title says. I know that the creators of FCPX initially allowed the seperation of Events and Timelines to give editors access to all of their media at all times - and I am thankful that they are continually thinking out of the box to give us this kind of functionality. But after it was released, I'd like to know if editors wound up using that functionality - that's not a rhetorical question, I'd really like to know. Do they take footage from one movie shoot and use it in a different movie? Do they take graphics for one commercial and use it in another? If it's a consumer making a family vacation DVD, do they take shots from one trip and use it in another? I definitely think it was an innovative idea, but it didn't wind up adding functionality that we use very often, and it wound up introducing complexity to the organization process. The way timelines currently work, I have to export the entire sequence - I can't have version 1 of my video at the beginning of the timeline and version 2 at the end. I have to create two, three, four seperate timelines. I can't use keywords to make the different versions. I also can't have 2 different commercials on the same timeline. I would love to one day be able to open up the Event window, choose my event, and see all of my related timelines there, all my footage, all my graphics, and even all my Motion files (because right now, I have to create my Motion files as templates and organize those in a seperate template window.) It would be great to hit a little plus sign in my Event and create another timeline. But right now, I start getting stressed when I have more than 10 projects in Final Cut... and I have about 30 and counting. It also takes 2 to 3 times longer to delete my old projects because they're in three different windows, and I have to remember how I made them. It may sound like a small issue, but I think Final Cut is good at eliminating the small problems in an editor's day to day workflow. It would also consolidate all of the project's data into one folder on my hard drive. And the great part is, editors would still have all of the same functionality that you originally envisioned, being able to access all of their media in any timeline - because the Event window is still there, and as accessible as ever. Allowing timelines to be placed in an Event, along with Motion files, would allow an increased level of organizational optimization that would give editors the freedom to think less about saving their work and more about creating it. Lemme know if you have any thoughts, too!
- David

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Is there a way to move clips in the timeline that I have cleaned into a sub folder in an event library?
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Marbelle

Aloha Fox,
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I feel you really understood my concern and gave me some good viable options.
There is a lot for me to learn and unlearn. I have been editing for over 16 years and most of that time I was using Edius. This is big paradigm shift coming to the Mac and FCPX.
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