trouble with wait at start option

[jstrobel]

Hi, I just bought Flix yesterday. It was much too late, my project is due today!

It's going great except for getting my movie to wait before playing. In the export, the settings are: MX video, blank transparent frame at start, wait 4 seconds.

I load the resulting clip into another that acts as a "frame"...eye candy really. What I'm trying to do, is have this frame animate in, then show the video in playback, then animate away the frame until the clip unloads entirely.

My problem is, I have to have the empty clip that the video loads into on my first frame in order for the loadmovie command to work. I want to have the video fully loaded before the animation plays, but remain invisible and stopped until I ask. So I exported the video with a transparent frame and 4 second wait thinking that would be enough time for it to be hidden until the animation is done. BUT, despite the settings, it plays immediately once it's loaded, long before my animation has even started.

>>> What can I do to get the movie to stay invisible and stopped until I want it to be visible and play about 2 - 4 seconds later? I tried targeting the clip it's loaded into setting it to invisible, to stop...none worked.

Much thanks! I'm desperately stuck! If you need a link to see what I'm describing, I'll post one.

Jessica

[Jonathan_B]

In the SWF tab of Flix, you can insert a "STOP" Action on the first frame and insert "Transparent frame at start". Then once your animation finishes, you can tell the video movieclip to "Play()".
jb

[jstrobel]

Hi JB, thanks for the reply! That's pretty much what I ended up trying to do, but there was also a bit of code in Flash that was stopping it from working. I've been trying to post for the last hour that I found the problem, but Flashkit wouldn't send my post. It was giving me an error with the Real Networks banner ad on the site. (??)...they violated the "Sandbox" security. haha. I guess it was hanging the page.

Here's what I was going to post...

I just solved my own problem...after posting the thread of course! Sorry.

Here's why it wasn't working:

In the clip that loaded the video clip, I had it do two things (in this order) once the video clip was loaded. If loaded, play the animation and stop the video (clip.stop()). Once I swapped it and
said Stop the clip, THEN play the animation, the stop() action worked finally. Why is Flash picky about the order?

Anyways, then I saw it wasn't stopping on the first (blank) frame, and it occurred to me that if I could get it to stop, I could get it to play as well. So I just went and stopped it on the blank frame right in Flix on export. Then gave it a play() action when my animation was ready for it.

Sorry to waste a thread!! I hope this at least helps someone. haha
Flix is awesome by the way...thanks!

Jessica