Convert to bitMapData doesn't work with nested movieclips?

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Hey all,

So i’m trying to do the following:

Take a movieclip called “MainMC” which has two movieclip’s inside it “ANIM” and “SHADOW”. Inside Anim and Shadow are png’s to make up an animation on frames.

Now when I convert to bitmapdata like so:

var bmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(MainMC.width, MainMC.height, true, 0x00000000);
bmapData.draw(MainMC);

I end up getting a tiny little piece of the Movieclip when i convert to bitmap and add to the stage.

So i tired going in further with this:

var bmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(MainMC.ANIM.width, MainMC.ANIM.height, true, 0x00000000);
bmapData.draw(MainMC.ANIM);

This time I get most of the image but not all of it. This seems to be because the original png’s are 150 by 300 pixels where as the ANIM Movieclip is scaled down to 100 by 200 pixels.

Any idea how I can overcome this?

Thanks!