Embed Flash Movie

[jfharper]

Can I import an swf file into an exising flash file and have it play at a certain frame? I am trying to do this but don't know how to do it...what I did is, import the swf, drag it into an existing symbol, animate the symbol to fade in, but the swf file is not playing...it is just static...any help would be great.
JH

[citizenvern]

Does it play outside of the movie you're importing it into, if so, what event triggers it? This may be annoyingly obvious advice, but make sure there's a trigger outside that tells it to play, and nothing inside that prevents playing. Or, if you just paste it's frames into the main timeline, it will (obviously) play automaticaly, but that would be messy and not so elegant.
I'm not sure what you need exactly, but maybe you could load it with loadMovie(), instead of importing it. That would make your stuff modular and more download friendly, but might change the flow of things.
Hope it helps,

[jfharper]

here is what i have

a main timeline that plays some frames
a have a symbol at a certain frame that fades in with alpha
I want this symbol to play an swf movie, fade in, play and loop until the maintime line fades it out...can this be done simply by having a symbol that just simply plays a movie and loops? Do i have to add a rectangle or something in the symbol?...do I have to have a certain number of frames for the symbol frames? please be specific, as I am very new to this.
thanks

I've attached a file...basically as the images are symbols and fade in, with some text to the side, I want at a certian frame, the same thing to happen, but with the Fox flash file, fade in, then fade out...thanks for any help

[citizenvern]

Where is the symbol that fades in? I'm not seeing it.

[jfharper]

I left it out of the file because I was not sure how exactly to set it up...if you unzip the attached file above, there should be a Fox.swf file I want as the third image to fade in next to the corresponding text, just like the first two images, but I want this third image not be a static image but to play the Fox.swf file until I fade it out. Here is what I am confused on what to do:
Do I...
1. Create a movie clip symbol and add in the Fox.swf file on the first frame of the mc timeline? Then add the symbol to the main timeline? I tried this and it did not work for me...maybe I missed something.
2. Just add the Fox.swf file to the main timeline and covert to a symbol? I tried this too, but with no luck.
3. Something else?
Thanks.
JH