hi!
i’m trying to make a skin for a FLV - it’s big and it’s very different from the skins that come with flash, anyway i thought it shouldn’t be too difficult, as long as i stuck to all the naming conventions and nesting of movie clips as the help files suggest… i have done, i’m about halfway through the skin and thought i’d test it out and see if i was getting anywhere… it appears i’m not 
i added the skin to the skins folder in flash with all the rest but when i choose it while importing my video file, i see no preview, just the blank black box as if i’d chosen ‘no skin’. then it places the video on the stage with no skin. but if i try and preview the movie i just get a blank screen, no skin, no video… i realise that there are probably a hell of a lot of things i may have left out, though i have tried to follow the layout of one of the readymade skins as closely as possible…
one thing is that i do have background behind the video - might that be an issue? the skin encloses the video completely rather than being just a strip at the bottom…
so, if anyone has any advice or ideas where i might be going wrong, i’d be very grateful to hear from you!
thanks!! emma.
oh here’s a screenshot to give you an idea:
