# Movieclip \> to bitmap

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-to-bitmap/238816>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 15, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-to-bitmap/238816 "2007-09-15T18:25:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xannax](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/xannax/32/3350_2.png) [@Xannax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Xannax)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-to-bitmap/238816/1 "2007-09-15T18:25:11Z")

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I’m confused. See, I had this project for a client: a square webpage, made out of little squares that rotate when going from when page to another.

So what I did was:

1. Load page 2
2. Hide page 1
3. create as many squares as necessary to fill the space
4. duplicate page 1 in each of the little squares, moving it so there’s no difference whatsoever for the user.
5. create the same amount of squares, duplicate page 2 in all of them, with the same method described in 4, but keep them hidden.
6. Rotate the squares created in 4, and when they are midway (aka showing only a slim line), swap them with those created in 5 (unloading the squares created in 4 while I’m at it)
7. When all the squares have finished rotating, unload them and show page 2.

It works well, as expected and all; but i have one major issue: some pages are quite heavy (containing large pictures, animation, etc), so the rotation is sometimes choppy, specially on old pcs, since I have the page duplicated as many times as there is squares.  
Apparently, masking the non-apparent parts doesn’t help.  
It was my first professional site; you can have a look at [http://www.orient499.com](http://www.orient499.com)  
No critics please, I know what’s wrong, I’m working on the new version, and I will ask for critics, but later.

So I thought I would re-do it all is AS3, since it’s more robust, and I thought about using the bitmapdata to speed up stuff.

My question is:  
How can I take the contents of a movieclip, break it into a grid of little bitmapdatas, and send each of those bitmapdatas to a different movieclip?

I hope I was clear enough. I know my english isn’t that good.  
If you could have an example, even in AS2, some source file, or just put me on the right track…Thanks in advance.

edit: And i read the [article about copying bitmapdata](http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000247.html) on livedocs, but that doesn’t help me much. Okay, there’s copyPixels() that can take coordinates, but copies only from a bitmap, and I have draw() that copies from a movieclip, but doesn’t take coordinates.  
Should I use draw to get a big bitmapdata of my movieclip before parsing it into smaller ones?  
Please help, I have no idea where to begin. I was okay with AS2, but AS3 is killing me.[URL=“[http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs\_Parts&file=00000247.html](http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000247.html)”]