Flash :: Continuous Movie Reel?

Old Movie Reel Effect
I am wanting to make an old movie reel effect for my website using Flash 5. My navigation bar is going to come down and run by much like it would if it were going through a projector. When it stops I want all my links to look like slides from the reel. Any suggestions on where to start or how to go about doing this?

How Do You Create A Movie Reel Effect?
I'm am developing in FLASH 5. What is the best way to create a movie reel effect. For instance if you what the perfed edges to acclerate in a forward motion for 20 frames and reverse for 10 frames at a slower rate and then back to a forward motion. Is this done with actionscript or can it be done without? Can you do this with a mask?

Old Time Movie Reel Countdown
Can anyone point me towards a tutorial or just a movie example of an old time movie reel countdown. Like a black and white 5,4,3,2,1 thing. I have one made, but it lacks the authentic look and feel so I need some pointers. I saw one of these quite some time ago, and now I can't locate anything on it.

thanks!

Continuous Play Of Several Movie Clips From One Main Movie Clip
hi,

i'm trying to play several movie clips, one after the other from one main movie clip.

i've got 8 movie clips, "m1.swf", "m2.swf", etc. "m8.swf", and one main movie clip, "play.swf".

i've tried using loadMovie, but it only plays the last movie clip. this is what i've got.

in the main movie clip, i've put a play button, and the actionscript i have in the button is:

on(release)
{
this.loadMovie("m1.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m1.swf");
this.loadMovie("m2.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m2.swf");
this.loadMovie("m3.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m3.swf");
this.loadMovie("m4.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m4.swf");
this.loadMovie("m5.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m5.swf");
this.loadMovie("m6.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m6.swf");
this.loadMovie("m7.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m7.swf");
this.loadMovie("m8.swf",play);
//this.unloadMovie("m8.swf");
}

is this wrong? how can i get this to work correctly. really important that i get this working for my job.

any help will be greatly appreciated.

cheers

Flash Keyframes: Converting Continuous To Not Continuous?
"FLASH GURU NEEDED" well someone very familiar with Flash animation and keyframes at least.

I know what they are, what they do and how they behave, but I was just wondering if there was an easier way to convert F into E in the attached image. Any ideas?

Continuous Movie, Regardless
Hi there everyone my question is how do i make a instance continuously play whilst the rest of the time line is playing/remaining static? I also want it to be unaffected by movements of the ain timeline. Thanks for your help....M

Continuous Movie Clips-please Read
alright. i have been working on this all day long. wasted so much time. please, if anyone can help, do.

i have three clips that need to start and rotate continously for a few seconds as they do now. and then one slows to a stop, the next, and then the third. the middle, left, and right.

right now, they don't come to a stop, they just keep going.

however, once they stop, i need to advance the clips picture by picture in a rotating order of the first clips. i should be able to do that just fine. right now, i need help offsetting the slow down, and finishing at the first picture in the clip.

please help. i know this is old hat for some of you, but it would be greatly appreciated.

Help With Continuous Scrolling Movie Clip
Hey everyone -

I need some help with a continuously scrolling movie clip. I found some codes online but haven't been able to modify them myself so I thought I would post on here to see if someone can help. I have attached the fla and swf so you can see what I'm talking about and help out.

Here is what I want to do with the page.

The boxes at the bottom will be images either embedded in the movie or loaded dynamically that scroll from left to right until someone clicks on a link above. Once the button is pressed the scrolling images at the bottom will stop and slide to a designated image and turn it from black and white to color.

If you guys can help with this I would really appriciate it. I will have five copies of this movie with a different number of images so it would be cool if you can help with the loading part as well.

Thanks so much!

Continuous Scrollable Movie Clips
hi everybody

im an illustrator who only dabbles a little in flash and would appreciate any help on my problem.

im designing an interactive scrollable timeline like this on at the bbc (the artwork initially but somehow got talked into the flash part)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeo...e_launch.shtml

my problem is do i design sections of the timeline as individual movie clips so when the user scrolls across the next loads or do i create a 2 mile long movie clip that disappears off my workspace in flash?

sorry if this is a basic question but im trying to learn as fast as i can.

thanks for any help

Brenb

Help... Continuous Motion In Movie While Changing Scenes
i'm creating a website which contains a movie in the upper right corner. when i change scenes, the movie resets to it's original position. is there any way to have continuous motion in the movie while changing scenes. the movie is a symbol that contains only shape tweened shapes and text. thanks if you can help.

Continuous Movie Clip Animation Throughout Scenes
ok heres what i'm trying to do:

i have two scenes which both contain an mc of an animation that i made in swift 3d. what i'm trying to do is make it so that when you jump from scene 1 to scene 2 etc., the mc pics up from the frame of where the animation was in the previous scene. I think what i need to do is record the _currentframe of the mc in the first scene and the load that _currentframe variable in the second scene, i'm just not so sure how to go about doing this.

Here is the file if you'd like to look at it for yourself:

KRT.zip

The two scenes i'm working with are "Main" and "Films". (The films button is the second one from the top clockwise). The animation is the rotating logo in the center.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Keith

Continuous Seperate Movie Clips Part 2.....
can someone tell me why this code:........

ActionScript Code:
stop();this.panel1.gotoAndStop(2);this.onEnterFrame = function() { with (panel1) { if (_currentframe == _totalframes) { stop(); this.panel2.gotoAndStop(2); } } with (panel2) { if (_currentframe == _totalframes) { this.panel3.gotoAndStop(2); delete this.onEnterFrame; } }};

give's me this error:

Error: A 'with' action failed because the specified object did not exist.

I have all my instance names named right and everything......

Random Flash .swf Movie Loader (continuous)
Hi All,

As a newbie I'm trying to solve a little problem I have with a web site flash header i'm creating and bow to your knowledge of using Flash...

I'm using MX and have a header that has a Flash movie in it...this has to be a random one of 47 files...one should load and play randomly and then when this has finished it should load another randomly from the same folder and then that play in full until that has finished and then another.. etc etc

So a random movie loader flash file loading randomly from a single folder containing 47 .swf files called image0.swf to image46.swf (perhaps with a preloader- each swf file is about 27k)

Either this is very simple..or very hard as there is only random loaders on the web which random load images on page refresh (not as a continuous never ending random movies...) and i'm getting square eyes from searching and looking!!

Your help would be greatly appreciated on this..Many thanks in advance....

Duplicated Movie Clips Divided Into Continuous Reaction
Hey, I need this for my game which is due out in like 5 days, so I need your help, Ok, so i want my background to repeat, over and over again, I have one movie named 'car'.

I cant really figure anything out, can someone help me, the car has to go straight up on the road.

onClipEvent (load) {

ground.duplicateMovieClip("ground2", 100);
ground2._y = ground._y+ground._width;
groundStartx = this._y;
groundSpeed=10;

}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

if (_root.spaceship.scrollStart){
this._y-=groundSpeed;
if (this._y<= (groundStartx-ground._width)){
this._y=groundStartx-groundSpeed;
}
}

}

~~~
What does it mean when it says ground duplicate movie GROUND2, I dont understand that, I got this off a tutorial on flashkit and i'm tring to bring it alive.. can someone please be kind enough to help me threw this, THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Continuous Movement Of Movie Clip X,y On Mouse Press
I have a movie clip called "one" The size of the clip is 2100px by 1500px. The flash movie (fla) stage is 700x500, so it obviously isn't all visible. My challenge is have arrow buttons at the bottom of the movie that, when clicked will move the movie clip, "one" across the stage. I would like to have the buttons function so that as long as the left arrow, for example, is in the down position, the movie will continue to move across the stage. Thanks in advance for your help--miramont

Play Continuous FLASH Movie In HTML Website
Currently, I have an HTML wesbite with a FLASH movie at the top of every page. The movie is just a slow, simple animation that fades images and type in and out, no action script. What I am looking for is a way to have the Flash movie, play continuously throughout the site; no matter where the user clicks, the movie should continue animating in the same place it left off. Currently, it reloads/starts from the beginning every time I navigate to another page.
PLEASE HELP!!

Please email me if you have any questions.

Demo Reel
I'm not sure if this is posted in the wrong forum. If it is, sorry

Ok, this is what I need done. First of all, if you have been to my site you know that my sister and I are a brother-sister tap team. We are looking to make a demo reel using some of our video clips that we have.

Now, I have no idea where to start .

If someone could please contact me on any of the instant messenger programs, or email me at michael@twofortap.com to help me, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you, and I hope to hear from someone soon!

Michael
www.twofortap.com

[F8] Help With Photo Reel
nevermind..

Cotton Reel
here's a little thing i made whilst i was messing around.

my idea was to create a 'cotton reel' that is on a spring so that you can pull string from it, and when you loosen your string, it rolls back up.

take a look
[swf=http://www.kirupa.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=13863]height=700 width=700[/swf]

[edit]updated it so it's smoother when you roll over it - my friend complained [/edit]

Help With Picture Reel
I'm creating a picture show reel. It's very basic, but it's only for learning purposes. As far as I can tell, the Actionscript is correct. It's supposed to show three slides, but instead it's showing four. And the first two are overlapping each other. Can someone take a look at it for me? Thanks. I'll also post the code. It might be fruitless though if not looking at the FLA. It can be obtained from here

center = Stage.width/2;
cellWidth = reel_mc.cell_mc._width;
_root.onEnterFrame = function() {
leftStop = center-reel_mc._width+cellWidth/2;
rightStop = center-cellWidth/2;
reelSpeed = (_xmouse-center)/10;
reel_mc._x += reelSpeed;
if (reel_mc._xrightStop) {
reel_mc._x = rightStop;
}
};
function NewCell(num, details) {
oldClip = _root.reel_mc.cell_mc;
newClip = oldClip.duplicateMovieClip("cell"+num, num);
newClip._x = num*300;
}

NewCell(1, "");
NewCell(2, "");
NewCell(3, "");

Picture Reel Problem
*~ Made Using : FlashMX ~*

I have just tried to make a flash picture reel that loads up jpg's externaly and shows them in the picture viewer that you can scroll horizontaly (Newbie stuff or what! But that's me newbie ) Anyway when the pictures load up they don't load in the position of placeholder_mc and only one of them actually shows up? I need to know why they wont show in place? If you need to see the file I have ZIP'd it up and attatched it to this post with the pictures to.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I kinda need help A.S.A.P. so if you can be as quick as possible.
Cheers

Studentmonster

Reel Rolling Effect
How can i recreate the effect of reels on a fruit machine rolling and then stopping. I want to create a banner where the reels roll and then stop one by one with my title in each reel but i want it to look realistic.

Thanks for any help

Old Film Reel Effect
How can I do an old fashion film effect with scratches, the number countdown, and maybe even the sound of it all too? Is there a tutorial out there that will help? I am not sure if it would have to be a separate movie loaded on top of the main movie I want to show though.

Scrolling Picture Reel
Hi I need some help please. I am trying to accomplish a scrolling pic reel exactly like the one on this website http://www.lomamedia.com/V1.html. I want it in a bottom, scrolling continously without any pause or break in between and so far i have came up with this code only

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x += 3
}

If someone knows the correct script please help. I can only use actionscript 1 that is what's compatible with my editor.

Embedding A Demo Reel F8
What is the most effective way of showing video on the web?
Do I embed a flash video on my flash site or open a seperate url
as a quicktime or wmv?

Do I need a seperate streaming app or is flash effective enough?
The demo reel needs to be small but still have sharp image, It will be higher quality than normal as it is an efx reel.

Any ideas?
Ant

Scrolling Reel Problem
I created a continous slide show usind the scrolling reel tuturial. The show works fine, the problem is when I load slideShow.swf into another movie clip in another movie.

I want the slideShow.swf to play when a certain button is pushed. So far in the home timeline on the first frame of the actions layer I have this:

button.onRelease = function() {
if (_root.section != "slideShow.swf") {
_root.section = "slideShow.swf";
_root.transition.gotoAndPlay("closing");
}
};

the movie clip that the slideShow.swf is loading into has an instance name of "container."

This is the code on the first line of the slide show

slide_number = 17;

reel_speed = 1;
slide_count = 3;
m1 = _root.content.slide_1;
m2 = _root.content.slide_2;
m1._x = 0;
m1._y = 0;
m2._x = 600;
m2._y = 0;
_root.content.onEnterFrame = function() {
_root.content.moveLeft(reel_speed);
};
function moveLeft(nPixels) {
m1._x -= nPixels;
m2._x -= nPixels;
if (m1._x<-600) {
m1 = _root.content["slide_" + slide_count];
slide_count = slide_count += 1;
if (slide_count > slide_number) {
slide_count = 1;
}
m1._x = 550;
m1._y = 0

}
if (m2._x<-600) {
m2 = _root.content["slide_" + slide_count];
slide_count = slide_count += 1;
if (slide_count > slide_number) {
slide_count = 1;
}
m2._x = 550;
m2._y = 0;
}
}

What I have noticed is the first slide loads corectly, but then the rest don't work. Do I have a wrong path for all of the slides except for slide_1?

Flash Demo Reel: What's The Best Way To Put This Together?
Hey all,

I'm putting together a demo reel of a variety of Flash projects we've done.

I would like the resulting file to be controllable with a Flash controller, meaning I'd like users to be able to pause it, rewind, fast forward or scrub through it.

I already have a component for the VCR style controller but how would you suggest putting the various pieces together in a way that it will be controllable?

- Should I bring in each of the various Flash movies as a separate scene in an external movie, then export it as a SWF and load it into a holder MC?

- Should I bring each of the various movies into a separate slide? Would slides even work with a controller?

Is there a comletely different way altogether? What do you guys think?

Scrolling Picture Reel
Hi I need some help please. I am trying to accomplish a scrolling pic reel exactly like the one on this website http://www.lomamedia.com/V1.html. I want it in a bottom, scrolling continously without any pause or break in between and so far i have came up with this code only
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this._x += 3
}

If someone knows the correct script please help. I can only use actionscript 1 that is what's compatible with my editor.

Web Site Intro Reel
hi im designing a web site for my friend he is a rapper and he is going to have a show and we want to make a coming soon reel for his web site on the reel ive seen it before where you could see all the things the website does how can i do that does anyone know of any info for this.

Flash Reel 4 Real
Hi guys..

Been out searching for a job/internship.. came a cross this realy cool company http://www.ontwerp.tv/v4/ here in Johannesburg SA check them out.

Well the boss there told me i should prepare a reel that showcases my animation skills alongside my Design skills ( obvious ) using any software that am comfortable with (which is flash8 ), ever since ive been doing alot of research on this and came accross some realy cool animations out there like http://www.andreaswannerstedt.se/session/ .... done by the famous Andreas Wannerstedt ( got me all worked up )

I would like to adopt a simmilar idea as this http://www.andreaswannerstedt.se/session/ on my flash reel , but obviously diffrent colours , layout and content ,... my main problem is i am not so sure what processes to follow to achive this kind of clean effects...

( is it action scripts , or just filters or both ? and how does he get to have all the graphics interact that well switching from scene to scene)

So if theres any flash gurus out there who have any ideas please holla and lets discuss ...

Thanks ... help will be much appreciated ...

am at www.klausy.net & affiliated at www.elektroliquid.com

Flash Picture Reel
I'm a noob at Flash, but I need to make this scrolling-picture movie from a folder of images. There will be no reaction from the mouse; it will just be a picture gallery that scrolls horizontally.

This is what my boss gave me:

Does someone know of a good tutorial I could look at?

Flash Image Reel
hi guys !

from a long time ago i have been thinking how paramount pictures made the reel of the current movies playing

look at this : http://www.paramount.com/

anyone knows the logic behind that flash reel, or can give a link to a tutorial where teach this ?

cheerz !

Script To Move A Reel Of Pics?
Hi there

I have a website I'm working on, and I have the stage 700x400 filled with the first image from a reel of pics (the reel has 5 pics, each 700x400).

I want it to work so that when I click on one of the buttons, the reel moves along to the next pic in line (gliding in, not just budging up). I guess that means once you've clicked 4 buttons, it will start moving backwards? Not sure, to be honest.

Any ideas what kind of thing I need for this?

All help gratefully received.

Steve

Looking For Mouse Reel Effect Like Www.skyimagestudios.com
Hey all, does any one know of a tutorial, or could point me in the right direction for a mouse reel effect like the one on http://www.skyimagestudios.com ? I've seen these around, I just can't find anything on it. Any help would be appreciated. Thx

Show Reel Wows (linking Several Files)
ok I've made 5 clips in Flash MX (they're all from different project files) .. but when I try to put them in a new project to produce a little show reel none of the clips work......

What's the best way to produce a little show reel??

ta,

mojo

Dynamic News Reel From XML - That Doesnt Scroll
Hi All,

Okay, I've created a flash (using MX) that I hard coded to have buttons (text w/ clear background) that scroll up to a point, stay there for 20 seconds or so and then scroll back down the way it came; then the next button scrolls up and so on ...

What I'd like to do is make this dynamic - meaning have a new button be created & placed into the animation dynamically from the text of a XML document (aka - not imaged based). That being said, though I've patched together a nice gallery using a similar technique, I'm really clueless on how to apply that to this. Creating/loading the XML I think I can handle. What I dont know is how to have the flash have the animated intro I want - then dynamically create all of the buttons (basically putting the new text on the clear background w/ the correct as link listed in the xml), have them go up then back down & move to the next. Then when all of the buttons are done, have the closing animation.

Does anyone know how to do what Im hoping to do? Know of any good tutorials on this (I've found things close but they arnt close enough)? Am I even being clear?

Thank you for any help you can toss me.

Creating A Showreel/demo Reel With Flash Movies
Hi,
I want to make a showreel/demoreel of my flash character animation work as opposed to making a portfolio website. It is purely flash movies with no interactivity and so I want to make a linear showreel (or just very long movie of my work). I have just found that it is near impossible to import flash .swf files as quicktime movies into After Effects as AE 7 doesn't seem to read the quicktime movies, or quicktime doesn't read the swfs, I don't really know.

Does anyone know of a quick way to edit my flash movies into a demo reel format? Are there any freeware packages that I could use. I would want to ouput to either swf or a quicktime file.
Many thanks in advance.

Help With A Continuous Loop
Hi everybody

The idea is to have a set of images moving from left to right or from right to left. When the group of images finishes, i want it to start again as if the movement was a loop or a circular one. The finish of one side must be joint to the beginning of the other.

Anyone can point me in the right direction? Or just tell me about a .fla to get the code?

Thanks alot in advance.

Continuous Scroll....
I know how to make a "GALLERY" effect ...ex: when you rollover an image...underneath a larger version of the image slides into view under a masked area.

I also know how to do on click/rolloever to make a background scroll to a certain "X" location too...

My question is..these above mentoioned effects scroll to a certain "X"location and stop....what woudl the code be for a button to scroll text up/down...on a rollover....or on PRESS actually. I want it to stop scrolling when the mouse is off of it. This is stumping me..THANKS! -whispers-

Kinda need this one quick...GURU's if you would!??..LOL...Thanks always!

Continuous Scroll?
Ok, I have text scrolling in 10 line increments, but how can I set it up to continuously scroll when someone holds the button down? Thanks!

Ryan

Continuous Looping
I know how to make an animation loop, but how can I keep it looping throughout the entire time the web page is in use. Ex- I have my animation looping, but when i set up my navigation, I have it set to (go to and stop, frame whatever) when it jumps to the frame the animation stops too. Am I setting up my navigation all wrong?

Continuous Clock
i have a simple clock that always reads correct,
however i would like it to update itself every second.
i've already tried putting it in its own movie clip
with one frame and no stops. that didn't work.
the current code i'm using is:

mytime = new date();
timetf = (mytime.getHours()+":"+ mytime.getMinutes()+":"+(mytime.getSeconds()+1));

timetf is the text field its pointing to.
how can i make this constantly update itself?