I made a flash file that contains 3 movieclips on frame 1, each containing around 100-200 frames worth of animation. However, I now realize that the full swf has to load before it starts playing. I tried copy and pasting the frames from each movieclip into the main timeline and that seems to make it start playing instantly while it loads, rather than waiting.

The problem is when I pasted the frames, the objects on the artboard are nowhere near where they were when they were in the movieclips. It would take hours to manually move each object across 200 frames and have them match where they are supposed to be.

Any ideas?