
More-Complex Animation Tasks
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Using Movie-Clip Symbols
Figure 12.41 Drag an instance of your movie clip
from the Library panel to the Stage (top). Flash
places the instance in keyframe 1 (bottom).
Using Movie-Clip Symbols
You put movie-clip symbols to work by
placing an instance of a symbol on the Stage
in your Flash document. Unlike animated
graphic symbols, movie-clip symbols have
their own Timeline. A movie clip plays contin-
uously, like a little lm loop, in a single frame
of the main movie. As long as the movie
contains no other instructions that stop the
clip from playing—a blank keyframe in the
Timeline for the layer containing the movie ...