well, if you could then enlighten me here a bit, i'm not an expert

the animation will be used as a layout, it will sit in the bg and elements will sit on top of it depending on where it is... so i will need to directly draw ontop of certain frames of it, and know when in the timeline certain frames will be reached, and according to certain events, go to and play at certain frames of the anim.

in flash, if i embed a movie, does it progress in the timeline frame by frame?