# Importing a movie (copy & paste of movies?)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-a-movie-copy-paste-of-movies/135967>\
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**Created:** [February 1, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-a-movie-copy-paste-of-movies/135967 "2005-02-01T08:28:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![freakshow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c67d28/32.png) [@freakshow](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/freakshow)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-a-movie-copy-paste-of-movies/135967/1 "2005-02-01T08:28:55Z")

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Howdy - so what i need to do is this …

there’s a flash movie called import.fla and i need to get it so that it’s imported into another fla called main.fla.

so i go file -\> import and it’ll only let me choose .swf files and when i import it it just appears as a whole series of bitmap frames on the timeline.

what i need to do is import the proper content of the movie, so that it appears inside main.fla (perhaps inside a newly created movie object) exactly as it would appear if i were editting import.fla directly, with all the layers, actions and functionality inherant in import.fla.

is there a way to do this?

thank you!

Chris B (uk)