I’m designing a movie with some simple animation in the timeline. On the last frame ( frame 100), I inserted a movie clip that contains 50 frames worth of animation. When I press enter and play the timeline, the cursor stops at frame 100 and only shows what’s in the first frame of the movieclip.
If however, I insert a frame at frame 150 of the movie on the main timeline, the movie clip plays when I “test movie”.
This can’t be the way it’s done! How am I supposed to design a movie if I can’t preview what the user is going to see in my timeline? Adding blank frames to to the timeline in order to compensate for the length of the movie clip seems crazy.
Please help me! How does one work with movie clips in such a way as to allow their preview within the timeline. I’m kinda confused, please help clear my head on this one.
the only way to view it is to do as you have done by adding frames. Don’t worry, it doesn’t increase your file size and you’ll never know in the published movie.
If you want to keep you timeline more organized, either put the layer in a folder and condense the folder so the frames are hidden, or put the animation part of the timeline in a new scene. At the end of your 100 frame scene it automatically plays the next scene.
Thanks alot! I was a bit confused the other day, it seems to work fine now. I think I forgot to put a stop action on frame 100, now everything is ok. I’m able to preview the contents of the nested movieclip when I test movie.
