Graphic V Movie Clip Symbols?
if movie clip can do everything what a graphic does , what is the avantage of a graphic symbol over a movie clip symbol?
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Posted on: 08-01-2002, 07:08 PM
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Graphic & Movie Clip Symbols
I am reading a book about 'Graphic & Movie Clip Symbols' but I still don't understand how they work????
Can u animate a graphic symbol and if so what are the benefits?
Also why create a movie clip inside a movie clip symbol? whats the benefit in that?
I would appreciate a response.
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I'm having multiple problems with my new animation, and have been searching for a solution for days now.
First a bit of background:
I tried to be all slick and make a movie clip of a mock debate with my whole animation in it, and then move that around in my main timeline to give the appearance of a camera panning, changing angles, and zooming in and out.
First part of the problem:
The main movie clip has audience noises in it, which are impossible to synch up with the characters' dialogue as the lip synching occurs in movie clips of the characters' heads. (So I've got movie clips inside a movie clip inside my main movie.) I understand that I can see the motion when I make them graphics and must change them back to movie clips to get the audio to work when publishing. That doesn't help me get the speech to synch up well with the audience noises though. I need sound to propagate. I tried compiling the movie clip but that didn't help.
Second part of the problem:
I put the main movie clip on my main timeline and create a motion tween to move it around (see background info above). However, I can't see the motion in the main clip if I don't set it to behave as a graphic (and even then, I can't see the motion of the movies within that clip). The problem is that there are a ton of keyframes and every time I want to preview or publish (to really see all the motion) I have to swich them all back individually to behave as movie clips. This is very time consuming.
AM I MISSING SOMETHING???
Flash can't possibly be this difficult to work with...
Is there no way at all to edit with sound from embedded objects? No components available or anything?
Is there a better way to accomplish my "camera angles" task without having to individually switch every key frame from movie to graphic and then back again?
BTW, I tried to compile the main movie clip first, but since the reference point is in the center, MX 2004 cuts off everything but the bottom right quadrant. It doesn't seem to show movement anyway so I guess that's a moot point. I have no idea how to move the reference point either without moving every single frame in my clip.
Thanks to anyone who even read this whole thing. Any suggestions would be very welcomed.
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Ok i'll try to write my problem as understanding as I can...
In my main movie scene I use a Movie Clip Symbol to play an animation. Now I don't want to loop this animation, but when it ends I want it to go to a frame that is in the main movie. But assigning it as an action won't work, cause it will go to the frame inside the movie clip symbol, not to the main movie! I can't choose any other options wheter it should go to the main movie or stay inside the symbol..
I still use Flash 4 (yes i'm very poor). But don't tell me to get a better version if you don't know how to answer my question. Thanks!
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You probibly get this question alot but I did a search on the forum and couldent find anything usefull. My question is what is better to and in what situation?
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I'll draw something full screen, symbolize it (as a MC) and then shrink it to size, but the lines shrink too. I dunno if this makes any sence but my main question is about the movie clip vs graphic.
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Because in my movie clip symbol, there are eyes, mouth, legs, etc. so if i wanted to make him blink, or talk and move at the same time, i would have quite a bit of layers. So, everything works fine when i am animating WITHIN the symbol. So when i go to Scene 1, and i want to resize the character then i can, i dont have to individually make the mouth smaller, eyes etc. Because they would all be on 1 SYMBOL.
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i hope you guys know how i can resolve this issue, thx again!
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The only advantage I found was that graphic syombols could be previewed in the timeline at author-time, which is only useful for straight-linear animation.
Your view and comments are welcome. :smile:
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i've been struggling with Flash a lil'over a year now. Always more to learn; especially when i hit this place.
Of the Symbols; i'm most familiar with MoveClips. Recently i have been playing with Graphic Symbols. For my use of fitting reuseable, animated pieces in succession together to tie knots; they are easier to build because they show on parent timeline if you stretch line out tfar enough to show last frame; so can align to each other.
What are some of the other reasons to use Graphic Symbols, pit falls, differances etc.? One thing i'm directly wondering, is if i can set some kind of default where they initiate as "Play Once" from frame "1" when taken from library; as it would save me a lot of time/aggravation it seems. i did learn that with black background the colors are more dramatic, and i can preshadow everything, then shadows only are seen when they don't fall on the black background/ when they should with no fuss!
This is something i started, to take seperate animations out of eventually for a complete knot site. Knot Link The menu part is sloppy, but not focus presently. Working on that end of the skill set is what i plan on developping more here (meaning the menu screwed up and i just concentrated on the rest of the project to get done to this point/ see what i could do).
The first 5 are specific high performance hitches for a man to hang on rope by(with extreme training; don't try that at home please; i've already outlived enough climbing friends!). The last 4 you might be more familiar with; the last a magician's trick. i could use help on the graphic symbols understanding, depth, shadowing, lacings weaving in and out, design hints etc. Which set look better as design and strategy for production of more etc. i've written and drawn a lot about knots, ropes, pulleys, rigging leverage etc. online and in some classes. Eventually plan a knot/rope site of animations and base and advanced theory. i think Flash is the way to go.
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Am happy to answer any emails etc. with knot, rigging etc. questions;
But figure i'll ask y'all about the Flash!
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