Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours

Hour 13. Nesting Animations in Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to make and use nested clips

• That a Movie Clip is a symbol with its own independent Timeline

• How Movie Clip symbols are fundamentally different from Graphic symbols

• That movie clip instances are addressable

When you see what Movie Clip symbols can do, you’ll be blown away. Inside a Movie Clip, you can create an animation and then animate an instance of that clip. This means, for example, that you can create a rotating wheel clip and then animate the rotating wheel so that it not only rotates but moves across the screen as well. Symbols, as a general concept, should not be new to you. You learned quite a bit about them in Hour 4, “Using ...