Re: FLASH: Flatten a Flash Movie?

[Rachel Bachman]

If you do decide to try making the symbols into movie clips

and pasting them into one layer I would love it if you would

do a test! I am curious about file size difference. 


If you're game, save it out as a swf from your backup copy 

and then save a swf from your new version with fewer

layers. Let us know what the two file sizes are!


Rachel


>>I have a movie with 48 symbols. Each symbol is just a line that has some

>>movement to it. It was easiest to keep track of each line's movement during

>>production with them all being separate entities.

>>

>>Now that the movie is composed, can I somehow "flatten" the movie so that

>>all 48 symbols are now at one "level" (i.e. one symbol) but retain their

>>motion?

>

>Why would you want to do that? Layers are all combined during .swf export

>anyway -- they exist only in the .fla authoring environment. If you copy a

>bunch of motion tweens to one layer they won't work correctly. If for some

>reason you really need to reduce the number of layers, convert each tweeen

>to a movie clip and cut and paste all clips to a single layer. Can't see

>why you'd want to bother, however.


------------------------------------------------------------------------

To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

email to

list-managershocker [dot] com

.  Problems to:

ownershocker [dot] com

N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to

list-managershocker [dot] com