Flash :: [F8] Seamless Loop

Creating A Seamless Swf Loop?
hello, I created a swf loop of a galloping horse (Flash 5 on mac os 9). When I view the swf, however, I get flash of white as the file reaches the end of the loop and begins again. How can I avoid this jag in the loop and just have it be seamless? The cycle is 30 fps (it's going to video eventually), and the animation is 10 frms of motion, repeated 3 times, for a total of 30 frames. I can email the swf if someone needs to see exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks in advance,

Jennifer

Getting A Seamless Loop With Animation
I have a movie that is 125 frames so far,

and right now when you push the test button, ive set it to play to frame 124, then goes back to frame 85 and loops 85-124 continueously.

thats what i want, but there is a little pause in the loop that is to noticible, and i know its not the animation as ive made it loop seamlessy in the program i created it in

the code that im using is just this:
at frame 124 i have a keyframe with
GotoAndPlay (85)

is there anyway to make it so it doesnt pause for a second at the end?

here is the animation, its around 3 megs and no preloader yet, so it may be choppy first time through

just a note that everything is in its very early stages, also mild adult content

LINK

Seamless Loop Of Particles
Im using adobe after effects to bounce some particles around in an orb. So far the best way to go about it for me has been using trapcodes particle filter. But I cant get it to seamlessly loop. Can anybody help me?

heres my orb im trying to loop

http://www.geocities.com/kendall_cole/particle_orb.avi

Seamless Video Loop
Hello!

Ive been trying to get this for a while. I have this 3d movie I rendered and its basicly a train going circles. I made an flv out of it and tried to loop it with a gotoAndPlay, of course you get a small pause after redirecting it to play again. This pause is the problem.

I have searched forums and still I have no idea what to do. One of the ideas was to make two mcs out of it and patch the pause by switching between them. That failed, strangely you still get the pause.

I did found one obvious solution, to make pictures out of the movie, but it makes the movie very very big then.
I saw some guy sort of draw the movie into frames with some function and could display the movie seamlessly then, it only made the computer use lots of ram, but I dont care about that. That was a bit beyond my actionscript understanding.

Is there a simple and effective way to do this? [any version of as]

thx for help!

Impossible To Loop Mp3 Seamless =/ Or..?
Hey..i've spend my last couple of nights building a dynamic sound script that loads external mp3s and prepares them for load, fading up and down and other stuff..

Now i suddently discovered that external loaded mp3's cannot be looped seamlessly.. this is not flashs fault., its simply how the mp3 file is written..

I wondered if there anyone who ever tried to fix it by using time to loop the sound, instead of the build in loop function?

Is It Really Impossible To Do A Seamless Loop With Ext Flv?
Hi guys,

I am searching everywhere for a solution for this: I´ve got a seamless video loop as a FLV file. If a play it as an external flv file inside a flash movie, it won´t do a seamless loop... It will do a small but annoying hiccup just at the end.

Is there a way to make it loop seamlessly?

Thanks in advance!

Seamless Loop - Not Working [MX Pro]
Hi there,

im trying to get a seamless loop, using the scrip below (thanks to some great "UltraShockers" !!)

Here's my page

My loop is perfect in sound forge, but flash adds a very short delay at the beggining of each loop and i dont know why, nor how to get rid of it

these actions are in frame 1 and 2 of my buttons mc:

Frame 1

ActionScript Code:
stop();
myAudio = new Sound();
myAudio.loadSound("http://www.dj-jammy.com/mailing_list/post_after_dark/loop.mp3", true);
myAudio.onSoundComplete = function() {
nextFrame();
};

Frame 2:

ActionScript Code:
stop();
myAudio = new Sound();
myAudio.loadSound("http://www.dj-jammy.com/mailing_list/post_after_dark/loop.mp3", true);
myAudio.onSoundComplete = function() {
prevFrame();
};

Also - while im on here, im trying to get my scroller (simple motion tween mc) to stop when the stop buttin is pressed - any idea's ?? the scroller mc is called "scroller".

many thanks for your time,

Neil

Create Continuous Seamless Loop
Hello,

Thank you for reading. This is probably a simple one, so please excuse if so.

I have three images tweening in and out. I want to create a continuous loop so you cannot tell which image is 1st. Right now it blacks out after the last image. How do I make it not blackout?

Thank you in advance.
MonaE

Seamless Full Movie Loop
Probably sounds really stupid. But I want to loop the movie, sound and all, WITHOUT it cutting at all. I could just drop a "loop" action in the back I know, but when I do that the movie has to stop and start again or whatever and the sound cuts out for a second and the picture cuts out for a second and I don't want any of that.

I want it to work like http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/choccy/

If it's already been answered, link me to the thread, I'm just tired of digging through pages and pages of tutorials and questions and not finding the answer.

Can't Make A Seamless Loop With A Streaming Flv ?
I'm working with flash 8 pro

Can't make make a seamless loop with a streaming flv ?

I get a slight hesitation between the end of the playback and the restart to make a seamless loop.

Here is my code :

Code:

import mx.video.*;

var listenerObject1:Object = new Object();

listenerObject1.cuePoint = function(eventObject:Object):Void {

var cuePtName = eventObject.info.name;

if (cuePtName == "endLoop") {

my_FLVPlybk.seekToNavCuePoint(0.0);

//below just verifies cuePoints

trace("Elapsed time in seconds: " + my_FLVPlybk.playheadTime);

trace("Cue point name is: " + eventObject.info.name);

trace("Cue point type is: " + eventObject.info.type);

}

};

my_FLVPlybk.addEventListener("cuePoint", listenerObject1);

//added to trace state changes

var listenerObject2:Object = new Object();

listenerObject2.stateChange = function(eventObject:Object):Void {

trace(my_FLVPlybk.state);

};

my_FLVPlybk.addEventListener("stateChange", listenerObject2);
However, it didn't do what I was hoping, and that is elliminate the slight hesitation between the end of the playback and the restart to make a seamless loop. I figured by using the cuePoint listener I could tell the player exactly when the video is over and where it begins, but the playback seems insistant upon that little hesitation (even with the buffer set to zero). In fact it doesn't seem to matter what I set the buffer at. I'd almost assume this is just something about Flash that I'd have to live with, except I've seen seamless loops with FLVPlayback, but nobody really gives a good explanation of how to do it.

Here's an example of one that is seamless

http://theflashblog.com/?p=86

However, I'm discouraged by this quote in the replies on an another blog:

If you want to get these video clips to loop seamlessly in Flash you need to embed them into your SWF. Keeping them as external FLV files will not allow them to loop correctly.

Seamless Sound Loop With Pause Button Possible?
I've looked all over the web and can't believe that a seamless sound loop with pause button can't be done... the loop works great (seamlessly) if I simply play it (see code)

but I'd like the user to be able to pause and restart the sound (I'm using a WAV encoded to mp3 in flash to avoid the ID3 tag).
I've been setting this up using Event.SOUND_COMPLETE, and that works, but for whatever reason interferes with the seamless looping of the sound, making for a glitchy sound rendition.

Is there any other way to seamlessly loop sound while retaining the option to pause? thanks

Attach Code

var sound:Sound = new loop();
sound.play(0, int.MAX_VALUE);

Seamless Nav
Well i keep trying to create a seamless nav bar like the one at the bacardi website (the sound menu, play, stop) but when i made my images in photoshop and imported them into flash they come out distorted when published as pictured below. How cna i get them nice and crisp like their website?

this is how thye turn out when published, the one ont he left is pixel and the one on the right was drawn in flash, both distorted.

http://ethics.dark-alliance.com/images/Audio%20Nav/

theres a link to the images i made.

Im now trying to trace the images in illustrator and paste them into flash but they still seem a little off.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Mario

Seamless Cut From One FLV To Another
Hey guys!
I search the forum but didn't find any info on this!

I want to seamless cut from one FLV to another FLV.
My best clue is somehow preload the beginning of the second FLV while the first one is playing?

Is that possible?
Would love u long time if you could help me!

Rock on!

Help W/ Seamless Swf Loads
I'm having trouble getting swfs to load and unload into and out of a Flash Projector File.

In the first frame of the main timeline of my parent file (the projector), I set up a frame action:

var swfs = new Array();
swfs[0] = "intro.swf";
swfs[1] = "middle.swf";
swfs[2] = "end.swf";
currSwf = -1;//currently showing nothing

underneath this coding, I created a function to load the next swf into a movie clip call "targetMC (center stage, main timeline). Coding:

function loadNext()
{
currSwf++;
targetMc.loadMovie(swfs[currSwf]);
}

In the last frame of each external swf, I put this action:

_root.loadNext();
stop();

To start the whole thing off, in the second frame of the main timeline I called the loadNext() function in a frame action. Code:

loadNext();

I can't get this to even start. Can anyone spot what I might be doing wrong?

Seamless Clouds
where can I find seamless looping clouds like here http://www.2advanced.com/archive/v3/flashindex.htm

the cloud videos I've seen, don't have the first frame exactly like the last frame, so it's not seamless

Seamless Movies
Hi People.

Does anybody know where I can get an example or tutorial on how to make a seamless crolling movie clip. I've seen it being used with clouds, but I've struggled to work it out for myself.

Cheers

Leroy

Seamless Looping?
I get an ugly jerky thing at between the end of my timeline and the beginning of the next loop. Anyway to avoid/minimize this?

Seamless Loading?
Hey Everybody,

What is the best way to load Jpegs into an external flash movie? Example: I'm using an empty .swf movie at Level_0 to load another .swf movie Level_100 the movie at Level_100 is the slideshow player. The player is going to have 60 Large images in it. I'm not imbedding any of the jpeg images into the player instead I was going to load all 60 images into different layers under the player in different levels. I don't know if this is the best or fastest way to load the images. If this is the best way how can I get the images to load in order 1-60 Any suggestions??

Thank you, D

Seamless Playlists
Hi,
i would like to stitch 2 flv files in a playlist but i want to have a seamless transition between the clips.
assuming the clips are in same resoultions and framertaes.
how can i achieve that.
Thanks.

Seamless Background
i just starting to learn flash.
how can i make a movie clip background move seamlessly (like a continous cycle) you know like a moving car but it's just the background moving, right? pls help.

thanks

Seamless Fade In And Out
Evening all,

I'm looking to mimic the effect shown on the www.intel.com main page
where the mouse over starts the animation for the main content but as
soon as you mouse out the animation reverses from that exact point.

I have left AS for a while due to work reasons and have totally
forgotten all of the tricks of the trade. I know that this effect would
be achieved through scripting, but I'm not too sure how.

Any help would be much appreciated, it's just too hot here in Sydney to
think straight at the moment!!

Thanks in advance,
-cptn_spoon

SEAMLESS NAVIGATION
My site consists of an "ENTER" page with several pages loading into it as external .SWF's. This seems to cause lag times when the pages(.SWF) are called up particularly those pages with animations that are maximum 435 frames long. Upon button release the viewer is looking at a blank screen for as long as 5-10 seconds before the next page loads.
Someone suggested loading everything as movie clips instead of separate external .SWF's and using a preloader page thereby eliminating the time it takes for each page to load separately. HOW??
I'm basically looking to achieve a clean, seamlessly functional Flash site. I'm a newbie so what's the best way to get a Flash site operational with several pages, button navigation/sub-navigation, and simple animations all running smoothly.
Please look at the site as it exists now: www.boulevardpropertiesllc.com. I'm open to rebuilding this in the most efficient way possible. Please advise.

Seamless Button
Hello guys, I'm trying to make a seamless button for the menu. The problem is that, I want it to be controlled remotely by AS. I only know how to do it directly to the MC. Is there a way to place AS on the main timeline?

The current AS I'm using is the following : ( I didn't do it myself )
stop();
this.onRollOver = function(){
rewind = false;
play();
}

this.onRollOut = function(){
rewind = true;
}

this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(rewind == true){
prevFrame();
}
}

Seamless Clouds
I made some pretty neat clouds, created 3 seperate MCs of different cloud shapes for effect - looks like what I want it to: all good so far.
At the end of the 3 cloud MCs, it starts over and looks choppy.
What's the best way to un-chop the transition?

What Is The Best Way For A Seamless Animation?
In the website I am developing I am trying to create a seamless cog effect. I am having difficulty getting the chain to animate seamlessly in reverse. I am also having difficulty with the synchronization of the cogs. Any suggestions on these matters or anything else you notice would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.graphxco.com

Thanks,
Scott

Seamless Clouds
hiya

ive just made up some clouds in photoshop and i'd like to have them scroll seamlessly behind my animation and not look jerky when the animation starts again as it loops - any ideas?

JP

Seamless Scrolling
Hi
need your help!
I have stage at 800x600 pixel with mc containing image same size as the stage.

How do I make a seamless scrolling in every direction and stop scrolling holding the position
on x.y when some button clicked???

many thanks
reverse

Seamless Slider
Hi!

I've created a horizontal Slider today, which I myself use as a background [ Neverending moving bitmap-background / Diashow].

Maybe this turns out to be useful for someone else, too [ Menu / Background / whatever ] ??

To use the Slider in an other movie, just copy the box on _root [ Layer: "box" ] and adjust the contents of the Symbol "box" to fit your needs. The Slider will automatically determine, how often it has to copy itself to operate on _root via _root.width [ important! ].

Download [19.968 bytes]

Seamless Transition From One FLV To Another
Hello everyone. I have been trying to create a seamless transition from one FLV to another FLV. Both are preloaded first. I have tried using cuePoints at the end of the first video to execute a function for the second FLV to play, but I still have issues with stuttering. I am close, but its not perfect. Is this possible to do? Thanks.

Seamless Scroller?
Hi, I have a sequence of images (all 100px high, different widths) which I need to scroll horizontally across the stage in a seamless loop.

I can't make it work using the timeline and I am not good enough in actionscript.

If I do it, it creates a gap behind the last image untill it's loaded again... but it needs to be seamless..

can anyone help?

Seamless Continuous Looping
just wondering how would I create a looping seamless series of porfolio pieces. I want the effect that looks like:

http://www.redsky.com

thanks guys.

Making Loops Seamless?
You guys have helped me WHOLE LOT in the past and I really appreciate it. Only problem is I still have a hard time understanding what you tell me. It always works and I use it but it's time for me to figure out what the heck is going on.

I have created a simple clip that I would like to loop seamlessly. I've taken what I have understood about looping but it does not work. It starts o.k. but goes down hill from there.

If you don't mind could you point me in the right direction? I would rather not have it done for me. Let me know what I need to be studying on or looking at to make it work.

Here it is

http://www.conwep.com/loop

and the fla

http://www.conwep.com/loop/loop1.fla

Thanks

Bob S.

Seamless Sound Looping
I would like to know how to make seamless loops and what programs you would recomend I use. Any information would help.

Seamless Scrolling Movies
Help

How do I create a seamless scrolling movie clip?

I nee to make a little movie with a street background. I've designed the street that I want to scroll behind a main character, but when the movie gets to the end of the street, I want it start the beginning again, without the viewer knowing. I've tried numourous experiments but I'm getting nowhere fast.

I'm sure it can be done as I've seen examples, such as scrolling clouds in a sky.

Any help would be great.

:Leroy

Rolling Seamless Background...
Im attempting to roll clouds across my background,
its PNG image imported from the Cloud Rendering Filter in photoshop!

How can i make this image seamless, and continuesly rolling!
With Out a Huge file size!

Please help!!

Seamless Movie Clip
Can somebody give me some details or point me to a tutorial, on how to create seamless movies, such as clouds scrolling across a screen.

Thanks people.

Leroy

Seamless Scrolling Pic Gallery
I am trying to create a seamless scrolling pic gallery but have run into problems. What happens is the first instance scrolls and when it reaches the desired point it duplicates itself but the first instance just stops on stage, does not continue scrolling. All functions for the initial clip are gone once the new clip is created.

Below is the script I am using:
/*scrol1 is the starting clip on stage // holder is the clip i load the pics into*/

i = 1;
function slide() {
_root["scrol"+i]._x -= 20;
updateAfterEvent();
}
_root["scrol"+i].onRollOver = function() {
hold = true;
};
_root["scrol"+i].onRollOut = function() {
hold = false;
};
if (hold) {
} else {
slide();
}
_root["scrol"+i].onMouseUp = function() {
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>0 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<80) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic1", "pic1", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>80 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<160) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic2", "pic2", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>160 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<240) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic3", "pic3", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>240 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<320) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic4", "pic4", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>320 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<400) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic5", "pic5", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>400 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<480) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic6", "pic6", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>480 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<560) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic7", "pic7", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>560 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<640) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic8", "pic8", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>640 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<720) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic9", "pic9", 1);
}
if (_root["scrol"+i]._xmouse>720 && _root["scrol"+i]._xmouse<800) {
_root.holder.attachMovie("pic10", "pic10", 1);
}
};
if (_root["scrol"+i]._x<=-100) {
_root["scrol"+i].duplicateMovieClip(["scrol"+i]);
_root["scrol"+i]._x = 700;
_root["scrol"+i]._y = 320;
i++;
}

Thanks Much!!!

How Did They Do The Seamless Intro/outros
check out http://www.eye4u.com/home/ . I am trying to replicate the way that they do a fade between pages, this is the coolest flash site I have ever seen.

I am fairly new to this. I have a little bit larger site than they do with a separate file for each page. The problem that I am having is when I run it on my box, it runs fine, when I do it over the network on a slower box, it doesnt. I obviously need to preload the page, but how can I preload all (15 at this point) pages at once, without losing my viewers?

Any help is greatly appreciated, even if you can just direct me to a tutorial or something.

-Ryan (not a nerd, but forced to be one and kind of enjoying it)

Seamless Image Looping
can anyone point me to a tutorial or movie on making a seamless picture loop? i want this image i have to automatically continoulsy loop horizontally,without the viewer being able to tell where it begings/ends.

Seamless Transition When Loading Swf's
I have an individual swf for each page of site.
How do i get the page 2 appear as if it is still the same swf. No split second blank screen. Just nice and smooth.?
Every other site seams 2 manage this?

Seamless Looping Flash Please Help
Hi all,
I'm new to the boards but not all that new to flash. I make flash animations for my website (www.cecimoz.co.uk) however I have a problem I'm hoping you can help me with with my new animation.

What it is is this:

I have a sound loop in my current animation. What I want to achieve is when it reaches the end of the animation and sound it returns to the first frame and carries on playing FLAWLESSLY ie there's no momentary pause before returning to the start of the animation, which is what I'm experiencing currently.

The sound file is in wav format.

I've tried the following:
1) Setting it to 'stream'
2) Setting it to 'event'
3) Adding a 'go to and play' at the end of the animation
4) Also tried doing the go to and play a frame or two prior to the end to see if the sound would 'overlap' itself.

I was even advised to drop the sound into a movie clip and then use that in the animation, but that just made it worse.

I'd really appreciate any help.

Thanks

Mozer

Seamless Sequential MovieClipLoader
I need to get several external SWFs holding video to either load into movie clips or levels and then sequence seamlessly. So as one movie finishes, the next loads in, no wait time. The goal is to have several clips look like one long clip.

I've been working on a solution that downloads and begins playing the first movie in the sequence while caching the others in the background. Before I go and tackle that in AS, I'm wondering:

Is it even possible to seamlessly load-swf, play-swf, unload-swf, load-next swf, play-swf, etc.? These don't need to be controlled with a play/stop button, just pulled from a directory and sequenced... The SWFs contain FLV video so I'm also wondering if I'm barking up the wrong tree and it's better to use a streaming server with some sort of dynamic XML playlist. Anyways!

Can anyone point me in the right direction??? Thank you in advance!!

[F8] Seamless Movieclip Transitioning?
I am having trouble seamlessly transitioning my movie clips.

I have a series of swf's that I am loading into another swf and the code in each file plays the next file. For example i am using an swf called Display.swf and i am loading beginning.swf, transition1.swf, etc. To load the files I am using the code

gotoAndPlay
{
_root.display.loadMovie("transition1.swf")
}

the movie clip in my Display file is "display"

I need each clip that plays to be seamless with the next one because right now I am getting a seemingly one frame flash in between the movie clips. I would just put each clip into their own scene in one file but I beleive that all the information combined into one file would be far to large for my computer to manage.

I'm pretty decent with flash but I am horrible with coding. So if anyone could help me out or has any suggestions I would be very grateful!

also, is there a way to copy all the frames from one file to another and still have it be in the same place and intact? I have tried to do this and it seems like my items just paste where ever they feel like it. Basically I want to take the the animation from one file and paste it into another one so that I don't have to re-key everything.

Thanks in advance!

[F8] [help] Seamless Background Scrolling
Please, can anyone suggest a method of producing a long, seamless scrolling background for my moving car movie. I made one but the movement of the background is jumpy, and breaking. Thanks in advance!
Attached FLA(F8).

Seamless Timeline Scrubbing
I'm creating and offline product demonstration and need to put the ability for the viewer to scrub/drag through the presentation. This presentation will run for about 5 minutes start to finish so I don't really want to have one timeline stretching out thousands of frames. Essentially, I'm looking for a solution or strategy where this timeline controller could handle a series of external movies or something along those lines so you could be scrubbing movie A and at some point, movie b would be loaded and the scrubbing could continue seamlessly.

Seamless Transition Between Videos
Hi, this is really proving to be a problem, can anyone please offer any advice?

I want to play a video and when it finishes play another immediately without any pause, currently I get roughly a frame's pause and it's very obvious since the second video starts one frame after the first ends in the original source.

The videos are loaded through HTTP and the second NetStream is loaded into memory one the first has finished loading. I've tried switching NetStreams on a single Video, swapping Videos on the display list, and changing visibilities. I've tried initiating the swap on NetStream.Play.Stop, NetStream.Buffer.Flush, and using a cue point at the end of the flv. And I'm really at my wits end.

If anyone knows anything or has any sugestions I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.