How to Combine Flash Movies Into One Movie
Combining two or more Flash movies into one movie is fairly easy. However, each movie must have the same or similar stage, or display, dimensions. Otherwise, the combined movies won't play properly. You can either append each movie to the Timeline, one after the other, or create multiple scenes and copy and paste the layers and frames from the movies you want to combine into separate scenes in the same movie.
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Instructions
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Combining Movies on the Timeline
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Open the first Flash FLA movie in Flash you want to combine with another movie. Open the second movie.
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Right-click any frame in the Timeline panel (in the second movie) and choose "Select all Frames" from the fly-out menu. Right-click the selected frames and choose "Copy Frames" from the fly-out menu.
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Go to the first movie. Scroll to the end of Timeline to the first column of blank frames. Right-click the first blank frame in the first (top) layer and choose "Paste Frames" from the fly-out menu. Flash pastes all the layers and frames---and their contents---into the Timeline, appending the movie and extending the Timeline to hold the new content.
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Repeat these steps for each additional movie you want to add to this one.
Combining Movies with Scenes
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Open the first Flash FLA movie in Flash you want to combine with another movie. Open the second movie.
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Right-click any frame in the Timeline panel (in the second movie) and choose "Select all Frames" from the fly-out menu. Right-click the selected frames and choose "Copy Frames" from the fly-out menu.
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Go back to the first movie. Click "Window" on the menu bar and choose "Other Panels," and then select "Scene" from the Other Panels fly-out menu. This opens the Scene panel.
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Click the "Add Scene" button in the Scene panel (first button in the lower-left corner of the panel). Flash creates a new scene and displays it in the document window. Right-click frame "1" on "Layer 1" and choose "Paste Frames" from the fly-out menu. Flash pastes the content from the movie where you copied the frames into this scene. When you test or export the movie to a SWF file, Flash Player will play each scene, one after the other.
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Repeat these steps for each additional movie you want to add to this one.
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Tips & Warnings
If you're combining long, complicated movies with a lot of frames and layers, combine them with scenes. Otherwise, you'll wind up with a long, difficult-to-manage Timeline.
You can't have a "stop();" action on the Timeline in any of the movies you want to combine, except the last one. A "stop();" action stops the playhead in a specific frame, interrupting the movie's flow from frame to frame or scene to scene.
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