leahg
04-03-2006, 08:45 PM
Hi everyone,
I'm truly new...and under pressure to resolve this today if at all possible. Please advise, if you can see the error of my ways...
I've got a simple movie with one scene (previously I had segregated each movie clip to its own scene, but that caused problems...)
15 movie clips, each containing an embedded video with audio (*.mov). Each movie clip lives on its own frame, therefore, the main timeline has 15 frames total. On frame 1, there is a navigation menu linking to the respective movie clips. Also, on frame 1, an embedded video and audio (movie clip) runs behind the menu.
Right now, the only scripts that exist are at the end of each movie clip's timeline, sending the user back to frame 1, i.e. the main menu.
In reality, what happens when the shockwave file is launched is this: the last movie clip plays and loops. I imagine that the movie is running through each of the frames; what I want is for the movie clip on frame 1 to play, until the user clicks one of the buttons.
I've tried adding a "stop();" action to frame 1 but it crashes Flash Player 8, every time.
What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to play frame 1, and only play the other frames when the buttons are used? Can I not have these movie clips living on the same layer or in the same scene?
Any help would be greatly appreciated (I'd post the *.fla file but it's well over 100MB- but I don't believe that's why it's crashing in test. It seems only to crash when I add actions to the main timeline).
Thanks ever so much,
Leah
I'm truly new...and under pressure to resolve this today if at all possible. Please advise, if you can see the error of my ways...
I've got a simple movie with one scene (previously I had segregated each movie clip to its own scene, but that caused problems...)
15 movie clips, each containing an embedded video with audio (*.mov). Each movie clip lives on its own frame, therefore, the main timeline has 15 frames total. On frame 1, there is a navigation menu linking to the respective movie clips. Also, on frame 1, an embedded video and audio (movie clip) runs behind the menu.
Right now, the only scripts that exist are at the end of each movie clip's timeline, sending the user back to frame 1, i.e. the main menu.
In reality, what happens when the shockwave file is launched is this: the last movie clip plays and loops. I imagine that the movie is running through each of the frames; what I want is for the movie clip on frame 1 to play, until the user clicks one of the buttons.
I've tried adding a "stop();" action to frame 1 but it crashes Flash Player 8, every time.
What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to play frame 1, and only play the other frames when the buttons are used? Can I not have these movie clips living on the same layer or in the same scene?
Any help would be greatly appreciated (I'd post the *.fla file but it's well over 100MB- but I don't believe that's why it's crashing in test. It seems only to crash when I add actions to the main timeline).
Thanks ever so much,
Leah