Movie basics

1

Here’s my question.

I have a movie, say a rotating blue star, in my library. After i drag it to the stage, what is the best way to duplicate the movie, if i need to change it to a rotating red star, for example?

I notice if i drag the movie to the stage twice and change one, the other is changed too.

do i have to create another movie ( copy and pastes frame) ech time i need to create a duplicate?

If i choose modify instance - it lets me change the alpha, effects etc but not the colors and shape.

2

make your star white and after you place it on the stage go to the ‘effects’ palette and select ‘tint’ then choose your color.
:slight_smile:
jeremy

3

cool

what if i need to change the shape?

4

anyone know how to do this?

5

Well you’d better not use a star if you need another shape…

pom 0]

6

I’m using a star just as an example.

The intention is generally to create one movie and duplicate it several times on a stage with some added variations to each instance.

for example, if i was going to create 10 birds flying - I could make one bird movie and duplicate it 10 times and modify each of the other 9 , diff colors, size, etc.