Re: FLASH: light out

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 04:44 PM 8/9/99 -0500, you wrote:

>I'm having a little trouble understanding the structure of fla's. I look

>at other peoples and they look differently than mine. Mine keeps

>stretching out to the right into infinity. Should I make this animation

>a movie clip?  I guess I'm asking how to best optimize my fla files. I'm

>obviously going to add on to this, do I just keep making more movie

>clips? Sorry for the rudimentary questions, I'm waiting for a light to

>go on.

>http://oerweb.uthscsa.edu/tv/temp/se1.fla

>

>BobMerrill


Hi Bob,


There's a lot to this question. Movie clips can help shrink your main

timeline, making it easier to find things without scanning "right into

infinity." Even more valuable in terms of functionality, a movie clip can

be present on the timeline without necessarily playing or even showing.

This enables you to play movie clip animations in many combinations;

otherwise you're stuck stringing every possible combination along the

timeline, which is unwieldy if not impossible.


The main downside to movie clips is that a clip must load entirely before

it can play. This could dictate against filling your first few frames with

movie clips if you want the piece to stream almost immediately.


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