Re: FLASH: Why is it so hard to select the entire timeline??

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From: Rebecca Lovelace <

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Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 7:19 AM

Subject: FLASH: Why is it so hard to select the entire timeline??



> I have a Flash movie that was given to me and I need to resize everything

> and break it into multiple Flash movies.  All I want to do is select the

> entire timeline from one scene, resize everything, copy it all, and paste

it

> into a new Flash movie.

>

> This seems pretty straightforward.

>

> I selected Edit Multiple Frames, and stretched the bar out for the whole

> relevant area of the timeline.  But there is no way to easily select

> everything (all layers).

> Sometimes Select All works, sometimes it doesn't.

> Sometimes dragging a selection box around the entire stage area works,

> sometimes it doesn't.

> Sometimes making sure everything in the timeline appears black (selected),

> sometimes it doesn't.

>

> I am finding that I have to try some combination of these things in order

to

> select everything I want to select, and there appears to be no rhyme or

> reason to it.

>

> Can anyone shed any light on this?  Is there a standard, always-working,

way

> to do what I am trying to do?  Is there some reason (blank keyframes or

> something) why one of these methods above does not work consistently?  To

> me, this seems like a bug (any Beta testers out there who can report it?),

> but maybe I just don't understand something.  I am finding no

correspondence

> between what shows as black in the timeline ("selected") and what is

> actually selected, and I am very frustrated.

>

> Thanks!!

>

> Rebecca Lovelace

> Funnybone Interactive

>

i had the same problem but trying to make a library movie clip into a movie

itself. I got support and it worked!!

1) open the movie or library

2) select the first frame in the top layer

3) shift-click the last frame in the bottom layer to select all frames

4) right-click on the frame and choose "copy frames" - maybe wait a few

seconds while it does that

5) go to file>close

6) choose file>new

7) right-click the first frame and choose "paste frames"

Good luck! DC

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