multiple movie clips on timeline

[Monstr]

Hi
I have about 8 movie clips that need to play one after the other. When I try to preview to see if it works, only the first one plays and then repeats itself. Does anyone know how to make them play in order? and then loop back to the first?


thanks!

[Noct]

There are lots of ways you could do that. Most would require actionscript, but you could do it without it.

The "easiest" way would probably be to make one timeline and put each clip in it one after another. You would need to know how many frames are in each clip, and then you just leave that many frames open after each clip.

Like, say each movie clip is 20 frames.
On your main timeline you would place your first clip, then move twenty frames ahead in the timeline, create a keyframe, and then swap your first movie with your second, and so on.
When you get to the end of the timeline, do nothing, and it will automatically loop back to the beginning.

The "cleanest" way, would probably be to make a one keyframe timeline, and place none, or just the first MC in it. Then you put a little script in to check what frame that MC is on. When it reaches it's desired frame, it dumps, and the next one loads, and so on...