Flash :: How To Sequentially Play/Load External Video Clips (in SWF Format) In Main Timeline?

Help With Loading/triggering External Clips Into Main Movie Timeline
I have a scenario I need some input on if anyone could be so kind...hopefully it makes sense...

I have a Flash movie file, and I have 5 large 'external' SWF files being called. There are 5 buttons in the main movie, each one when clicked needs to load it's proper exteranl MC into the main movie (ie button 1 loads/plays MC1.swf)

...but, it needs to start each each external clip at Frame 2, so it can't just load the movie on frame 1 and go...

so far I have something like this, but obviously its not right:

on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie(“externalfile.swf”);
}

How do I code the buttons to do that properly?

Also, is there a way to preload those external clips right off the bat?

Thanks for any help...

seanpc

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Help With Loading/triggering External Clips Into Main Movie Timeline
I have a scenario I need some input on if anyone could be so kind...hopefully it makes sense...

I have a Flash movie file, and I have 5 large 'external' SWF files being called. There are 5 buttons in the main movie, each one when clicked needs to load it's proper exteranl MC into the main movie (ie button 1 loads/plays MC1.swf)

...but, it needs to start each each external clip at Frame 2, so it can't just load the movie on frame 1 and go...

so far I have something like this, but obviously its not right..it's only calling and loading the external clip, but not goign to frame 2 like I want it:

on (release) {
_root.contents.loadMovie(“externalfile.swf”);
}

How do I code the buttons to do that properly?

Also, is there a way to preload those external clips right off the bat?

Thanks for any help...

Van

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Pros & Cons Of Load Movie Vs. Putting Clips On Main Timeline
hi, i have a sort of theoretical question:

i often see the advice to "load movie" when you want to string several movie clips together on the main timeline. what's the advantage of doing that vs. just putting the movie clips one after another on the main timeline. and, i've never had much success getting "load movie" to work for me (i'm pretty new at this). so, can someone explain how it works?

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Play Multiple Timeline Sections Sequentially?
Hi,

this is the first time I've tried to build a flash site, so i'm not really sure what i'm doing yet.. i hope someone can help.

I don't really know much actionscript, but it seems i'm missing something, as when i write 2 lines of code, supposedly to play 2 timeline sections in sequence, only the second one plays. This makes me think i need some kind of delay or pause condition, as i guess they are SET playing sequentially, rather than waiting til the first section has finished playing to play the second.

Heres what i'm actually trying to do:
Each "page" has a "fade in" animation and a "fade out" animation. So far i've only made a couple of pages, and it's worked fine, but now i've realised that every time i load the homepage, for instance, i will want to fade-out whatever page is on the screen, and fade-in the homepage. So i've tried to split the transition animation in two, so i can, for instance, reuse the "fade-in homepage" section with a new "fade-out" section.

this is the first piece of code i tried;

stop();

back1.onRelease = function () {

gotoAndPlay ( "rubout about page" );
gotoAndPlay( "redraw home buttons" );

};

then i tried to introduce a variable, in an attempt to prevent the second section playing before the first had finished (i put a piece of code at the end of the first section which resets mystop = 1. But anyway still only the second section plays.

stop();
var mystop = 0;

back1.onRelease = function () {
if (mystop =0){
gotoAndPlay ( "rubout about page" );
}

if (mystop = 1){
gotoAndPlay( "redraw home buttons" );
}
};

any ideas why this doesn't work or whats a better way of doing it?

many thanks.

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Im sure there is a simple answer....I have a button that loads an external clip...but i also want that clip to appear once my main stage animation has finished....so its the first thing displayed once the display area is up.....

help me again someone

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Hi,

When I try to load external SWF's into my main timeline, I lose the ActionScript functionality of those files. Do I need to export the ActionScript and import it into the main timeline? If so, how do I do that?

Cheers,
Lucas

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OK - this is my first post to this forum. I've been working with Flash for a while. No problem with basic timeline images, text, and music. (See pvhistory.org splash page). I've also got no problem encoding and uploading video to play on the web. (see the onliine history show playback on the website).

Here's the problem. I want to tack short ads onto the front of the segments, but I don't want to edit the ads into the videos. I want to attached the ad clips after everything is encoded to an FLV. This way changing ads will be quick. For the life of me I can't figure out how to get two videos on the timeline playing sequentially. This has to be easy and I"m missing something obvious.

Any help from the more experience, or simply more astute, members of the group appreciated.

Ned Barber, Pascack Valley History Project

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Load External Swf (quiz) Into Main Flash 8 Timeline
Hi there,
I am creating at learning module in Flash 8 on Mac OS X, I have four external swf quizzes created from the template. To load it into the main timeline, I made a movie clip, and successfully loaded the swf quiz into my main timeline, using loadMovieNum, and to get it to unload, I put in the unloadMovieNum script, but once the short quiz is completed, it does not go back to the main timeline. It just sits there at the end. I guess you can tell I'm new at this

If anyone knows what i should add to the movieclip actions to get my swf to go away and put me back on my main timeline, I'd really, really appreciate it!

Thanks so much!
Connie

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Hi there,

Just new on this forum and hoping to get some help!

I've build a website that loads an random banner every time the page is reloaded. This is done bij the loadmovie function that loads randomly external .swf files.

I hope to establish, that when people click on the banner they get redirected to a certain point in the main timeline. So the external swf file is containing a button and when pressing it must work for the main timeline.

Doe anyone has a suggestion?

Thanks Rik

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I'm new to AS3, coding of any sort actually, so I'm really hoping someone can help me. I'm attaching my fla file for the main loader so you can see how far I've gotten. I know that if I can get the code portion for one of the movies, it's then just a matter of cutting and pasting for each additional movie but I'm stuck.

Please help in any way! Thank you!

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Hello,

I need to know how to be able to load external SWF video files into a main flash movie via buttons on the main flash. What I am trying to do is to show video clips in a window on the main flash movie. I know I need to convert the video clips to flash first. Could someone tell me how should I convert them in flash professional 8, then have on the main flash movie different play buttons which can each bring a certain clip to play in a window. I'd like to be able to also allow the viewer to control the audio of each clip, as well as pause the clips, start them over again, etc. I'm just trying to allow my viewers the choice of which clip they want to play into a window on the main flash movie and be able to control them as well. I'd really appreciate it if someone would help me. It's really hard to find a solution anywhere else.

Thanks!

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Hi All,

I'm trying to reference clips on the main timeline either in or via my main Document class, but if I declare any clips as public in the class body as I would have done is AS when linking an external class, I get:

Code:
1151: A conflict exists with definition tfLength in namespace internal.
If I don't declare the clip, then I can reference it from within the same class with this.tfLength, but other classes complain it the Document classes tfLength variable doesn't exist!

So how do I reference a clip on the timeline in my class?

Thanks,
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Hello,

Scenerio: You are at frame 1 of the timeline and it's stopped, you hit a button and it jumps you to frame 20 and then at frame 20 a movie clip plays.

Question. Can I have that movie play for however long I want (let's say it's a 100 frame movie) BUT have my main timeline still sit on frame 20? And then when the movie is done playing it goes to frame 21 of the main time line? Currently I have to make my main timeline be the same length as any movie I have in it, and so my main timeline ends up being an absurdly long.

Just a general answer will help - which action scripts would I be looking to use (I'm using Flash 8 Pro)?

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I have 4 separate external swf files called:

"spinner1.swf"
"spinner2.swf"
"spinner3.swf"
"spinner4.swf"

I also have a placeholder called "loader_clean_out_valve" in my index.swf

I just need a wee bit of code to load spinner1.swf into the index scene and play it, when spinner1.swf is finished playing i want to then load spinner2.swf and play it, when spinner2.swf is finished playing i then want to load spinner3.swf and play it. I think you get the idea.

Im not sure if each movie that has just plays needs to be unloaded or what

I have searched high and low but cant find a solution anywhere.

I am using flash 8.

Any help would be a godsend

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change with each keyframe, but leave me with an inaccurate
representation of what is happening as I drag the slider across the timeline. I am able to view the outline of
the shape in the movie by clicking the view outline box next to the
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Also, if I want to export only part of the movie for test, is this
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gotoandplay(_root.nameofframe);

but it doesn't work.

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I have navigational buttons held within a movie clip. The buttons come with a animation, and start at frame three in the movieclip, except I need to position this acurately with the rest of my design, but dont have a visual for this.

Hopefully someone can explain.

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This is the action on frame 1 of "empty":

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I need the entire presentation to loop. I have a frame labeled "startsite" where I need the movie to start over from on "main.swf"

So at the end of "continue.swf" I need an action that tells it to go to "main.swf" and play frame labeled "startsite," right?

I've tried:

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I've tried:

_root.gotoAndPlay("startsite");

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http://studio34design.net/aleks/aleks_chem3.html

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1. Is it possible to convert the flv to swf?
OR
2. Is it possible to control the flv from the main timeline?

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