Bitmap in flash

Hey everyone,

Excuse me if there is already a thread on this, but I couldn’t find anything here (or anywhere els for that matter)

I curious to hear about other peoples work processes when it comes to transferring your completed photoshop art (pixelart in my case) in flash. In the past I have just cropped individual elements with an empty buffer of 1 pixel around the art and exported to JPG, then import into flash. This could be up to 100 individual graphics for game or animation, and as my projects are getting more complex is this getting even more out of control. Animation for one charrecters movement could easily be over 50 frames. There has to be a better way to do this.

Does anyone have any ideas how to streamline this process? Are there any photoshop/flash plugins or features that I’ve overlooked which could knock out this time consuming process.

I’d love to have a bitmap editor right in flash, so I could modify sprites on the run during coding and animation instead of have to go back between flash and photoshop every time I need to make a small adjustment.

Thanks for the help.