FLASH: to John Cr... stop action & general sound ?s

[Jefferis]

John Croteau


>If you want a Movie Clip to determine the play time put a stop action in

>the frame of the MC, put a blank keyframe following the frame of the MC

>on the main timeline. Now, the Movie Clip will play while the main

>timeline is stopped. If you want the main timeline to start again use a

>frame action in the last frame of the MC with a tell target to the next

>frame on the main timeline.

>

>Tell Target   Target: /

>  Go to Next Frame

>End Tell Target


Thanks for your help. I am starting to get the picture. I thought the 

sound was determining the length of main timeline's play time.  If I 

understand you correctly, I put a stop action in the main timeline's 

frame where the MC starts?? or in the first frame of the MC itself?  I 

think it would be the former, but wouldn't that stop action in the main 

timeline prevent the MC from playing? 


What I did was extend the main timeline long enough to cover the full 

number of frames in the MC so that the MC would play simultaneously with 

the main timeline.


Now where I got confused was that although I had enough frames in the 

main timeline, the MC did not play completely in the TEST mode, but got 

clipped until I extended it to the point where the MC actually plays 

through 3 full times... 


I think, and this is where I am confused... how does a sound control the 

play on the main timeline? 

I have a sound in the MC which takes 3 full loops of the video to 

complete. I also had sound on the main time line which extended the the 

timeline many frames.   I can't remember now whether I used them as 

Syncronized or Streamed sounds...


A couple of basic questions: what effect does Event Syncronized or 

Streamed sound have on the timeline of either a movie clip or the main 

timeline?


I also tried to import WAV sounds, but found Flash didn't recognize them. 

 I thought Flash was supposed to recognize WAV on a Mac?  They are wav 

files but have the QT movie icons.. 


Jeff


Peterson Sales

410 Woodland Ave.

Grove City, PA 16127-1824

http://www.PetersonSales.net


Tel. 724-458-4160

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