Very basic question about navigation technique

[reedy2k]

This should be pretty fundamental

I use load movie for each of my website sections. However i have noticed that most sites have transition effects as the currently loaded movie is removed before the new one starts loading.

Im not sure how to achieve this. All I can get is when you click on a button in my site, the movie clip disappears instantly and the new loading screen appears, Id like the movie clip thats there to animate itself away.

I cant get my head round how to do this common practice???
Thanks

[Cota]

Genreally speaking there are a few methods to do this, guess it depends on which one you like most. One method of doing this create the transition in the loaded swf itself and when a button is pressed to load another movie, you store that in a variable, play the transition, then use the variable to load the new movie. Method 2 is similar. Create a transition movie clip that sits above the loaded swf. The button would trigger that clip, then load the proper movie, again, using variables to store the movie names. Hope this helps.