Importing a Scene

[haneberg]

Alright,
I know this was asked before, but the answer didn't help. Basically, I want to import a scene from one .FLA file to another. The solution presented by Jesse was to "Copy Frames" for the entire movie and paste it into the other file. But for some reason the "Copy Frames" is not available, only "Cut Frames" is. And if I cut the frames, it won't let me paste them into my new file because "Paste Frames" is greyed out. It seems silly that I can't simply add my Scene to another movie, and it would help out a lot if I could. The workaround presented for the "Copy Frames" problem was to do it layer by layer . . . but I have so many layers per scene that that is just too much time on a simple task. What is the deal? What is the best way to do this? And why does "Copy Frames" only work once in a while?

Thanks,
Sean Haneberg

[haneberg]

Well I actually figured it out and decided to post it so others could benefit. When I searched the forums for this problem I noticed that others had this problem.

Basically, the problem is that if you want to copy an entire scene, you need to select all the frames and copy them... but the problem is that the select all feature I was using wasn't selected all the frames I needed. In order to Copy Frames, you must have selected an Entire "Square" of frames, or the empty cells. For example, if you have one layer that has no more frames at 10 Frames, and another layer that has no more frames at 15 Frames, and you choose select all, It will select the 10 frames of the first layer and the 15 of the second. But you cannot Copy Frames since for some reason you need a have a square selection . . . so you have to basically select 5 extra empty cells on the frist layer. The solution i used was to go to select the frames by drawing a box by clicking and dragging within the timeline itself... this way you can select the frames and copy them allowing a scene to be manually imported.

I thought it would be a good idea to post this since the Copy Frames problem was listed on several message boards without explaination as to why it wasn't working...

Thanks
Sean