In Flash, I've found that no matter how meticulously I select every object in the workspace, when I try to move them all, only some of them move. When I play the timeline, only some of the frames moved while the rest are still positioned where they were. How do I reposition the entire flash movie if I change the document size?
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I select all layers and all frames and attempt to reposition everything.
For instance: You have any number of objects animating across the stage on any number of separate layers. The entire animation of all the objects is too far to the right, so you want to bring the entire animation of all objects to the left and then resize the stage.
Doing it one frame at a time seems very counter intuitive let alone counter productive.
i got ur problem now.
ur solution is to convert all ur layers and frames to a movie clip.
here is the steps:
select all the layers keyframes (all ur animations through all layers) then right click and select copy frames.
now select insert from the top file menue -> new symbol -> movie clip
in the movie clip select the first keyframe then right click and select paste frames.
now all ur animations will be pasted in this movie clip.
now go to ur stage, and clear all these animations. then insert the movie clip u have just created from the library.
now position ur movie clip where ever u want.
hope this helps now.
kanary.
It's one way around it, but it treats my original timeline animation as a movie clip (obviously) which means I can't export a sequence of image files from it, which is required to complete the job by my clients requests. I'm not sure if this was a dumb mistake on the part of Macromedia, but that's an issue I've got going in another question on this site.
I'll go ahead and honor this solution with the points, but if you have a clue about this other problem, I'd appreciate it. I've scoured the macromedia tech support site to no avail.
Hmm, not sure we're connecting here.
I'm not trying to load a sequence, I'm exporting as a sequence, but the stills don't incorporate the embedded movie files within the SWF. Even if I create a new document, import the SWF and inspect each frame, it drops the movie files that were originally embedded.
Something else I tried:
1 copy all the layers and frames of the particular movie
2 paste them in the main timeline
3 delete all the original layers
4 export the movie
5 reload the original FLA
6 import the movie SWF in a new layer
When you import an SWF, it makes each frame a key frame. That means, now I'd have to manually reposition each and every keyframe to match where the object (the head) is supposed to be, then delete the original layers that the new SWF import is covering. That's alot of work for something that shouldn't be so hard to deal with.
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by: kanaryPosted on 2003-09-15 at 13:03:41ID: 9365644
hello knetyk,
i don't think that i get ur problem well, but here is some hints:
if u r on a certain frame, that means u can only c on the stage the objects that exist in every layer in this frame only, if u moved the timehead to the right, u may c more new objects as u have inserted new objects in the later frames.
to select the entire stage when u r on a certain frame or keyframe, press ctrl+A to select all the objects. or simply drag ur mouse to cover all the stage to select every thing.
to be able to just see every thing in a certain period of time (say 12 frames) u can select the onion skin button at the buttom of the timeline pannel then widen the time selection at the top of the pannel.
hope that helps,
kanary.