Is there a way to take a whole movie (FLA) and convert it to a movie symbol?

[treyratcliff]

I would like to do this with one of my rather complex FLAs, and then use it as a movie clip inside another movie.

Let me know how one might do this! Thanks.

[backstreetboy]

load it inside your main movie clip by using loadmovie AS

[andya]

Of course you'll need to publish the fla as an swf first.

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[treyratcliff]

Thanks yall...

One problem, though. When I did this, the movie appeared HUGE on the screen, even though the movie clip symbol I placed on the scene was a small box.

To test this out, I took one of the eye candy demos

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effec...08/index.shtml

from flashkit, and I was going to use that on the scene. So I:

1) Saved that as blue.fla and blue.swf in my directory
2) Created a new movie clip symbol on MY fla.
3) Inside that symbol, I placed a small orange box, and that's all
4) Back on the main scene, I dragged Symbol 1 (the movie clip with an orange box) to the main scene. I adjusted the size of the move so it took up about 1/8 of the screen in the corner.
5) I named the instance of that movie symbol "test"
6) inside the ActionScript, I used

loadMovie ("blue.swf", "test");

When I run it, it DOES NOT take up 1/8 of the screen. It is HUGE and is kind of off to the side.

Is this because this one movie is wacky? I don't see how. I run blue.SWF on its own, and I can adjust the size of the movie with no problem.

Did I miss something fundamental, perhaps?

[pgpaul]

loaded swf have the same background and size with main movie.

I sugest you to do the folowing:

Go in your first fla file.
Select all frames and then copy (Ctrl + Alt + C).
Make a new MC (MC1) (deselect all and hit F8).
Go to first keyframe, select it and paste frames (CTRL + Alt + V).

Ok, now return to main movie and delete all.
Open the lybrary. You must have there the new MC. Let the library open and open the second fla (where you want to load the old one).

Make all layers "Guide". Save as > and give one new name.
Now on a new layer drag from open library the MC1. Resize and put it in right place. Now export as swf. The "Guide" layers will not be exported.

Now, finally, you van load the swf in right place.

I hope you understand. My english is... I don't know..

[treyratcliff]

Oh yes I do understand. Your english is fine... thanks.

This works fine for some movies, but for others, for some reason, there is no "Copy Frames" option available.

Like, for example, in this one:
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effec...08/index.shtml

(if you get that FLA), you will see that you cannot select all then copy frames. I'm not sure why!

[pgpaul]

But I can. Maybe you do not have enought RAM (I have 256 Mb).

Try to copy just few layers at one time.