CS3 Movie Clip-per-keyframe help

[toddomassey]

Hello all,

I'm pretty much an AS3 newbie (and I rarely ever develop in Flash, since my specialty leans more towards Photoshop & Illustrator, and I'm learning HTML5/CSS3 anyway), but I need to create a Flash version of a slideshow to go on my portfolio site's home page.

Just when I think I have a good grasp on the AS3 I need to do what I want, I'm stuck. Okay, so here's what I'm trying to do:

I have all 6 of my movieclips set to go (the first is an animated intro, the other 5 are fade-in/fade-out images). I want to make it so that there are only 6 frames on the main timeline, with each keyframe containing one of the movieclips, in the order I want it (yes, I do have a layer called "actions" on top in my main timeline).

What I want to make it do is stop on the first frame, play its movieclip once, then once the clip has played all the way through, go to the next frame and play ITS movieclip; repeat.

Something in my head keeps telling me this should be easy, but I am getting more and more stuck as I try. So here I am, humbly begging for your assistance. Much appreciated! Thank you for your time.

[[afz]snickelfitz]

What you're trying to do is much simpler with code.
For example, you can use TimelineMax to create easy to edit sequences like the one you described.

Stack/position the named instances on the stage on frame1.
Since the intro might contain a complex animation, the script will move the playhead over a prescribed duration, which is calculated and stored in a variable.

The picture tweens in this example affect the scale, rotation, alpha and visibility of the pictures.
And Since I am using the "from" method of TweenMax, the pictures are tweened from the specified property values, to the current values on the stage.
It's a very useful method that saves a lot of set up and code.
The tweens also use repeat / yoyo, which fades in, then fades out.

With a little practice and research, you can build very sophisticated animation sequences with TimelineMax.
Download the class packages and place the included com directory in the same folder as your FLA: http://www.greensock.com/v12/

import com.greensock.*;

var frameDur:Number = intro.totalFrames/stage.frameRate;
var dur:Number = 3;
var overlap:Number = dur/2;
var tl:TimelineMax = new TimelineMax({onComplete:trace, onCompleteParams:["hello world"]});

tl.append(TweenMax.to(intro, frameDur, {frame:intro.totalFrames}));
tl.append(TweenMax.from(pic1, dur, {autoAlpha:0, scaleX:0, scaleY:0, rotation:360, repeat:1, yoyo:true}), -overlap);
tl.append(TweenMax.from(pic2, dur, {autoAlpha:0, scaleX:0, scaleY:0, rotation:360, repeat:1, yoyo:true}), -overlap);
tl.append(TweenMax.from(pic3, dur, {autoAlpha:0, scaleX:0, scaleY:0, rotation:360, repeat:1, yoyo:true}), -overlap);
tl.append(TweenMax.from(pic4, dur, {autoAlpha:0, scaleX:0, scaleY:0, rotation:360, repeat:1, yoyo:true}), -overlap);
tl.append(TweenMax.from(pic5, dur, {autoAlpha:0, scaleX:0, scaleY:0, rotation:360, repeat:1, yoyo:true}), -overlap);
tl.append(TweenMax.to(intro, dur, {autoAlpha:0}), -overlap);

[AliceBoarts]

I am in a fix for making movie clips,with effects and animation.Can anyone suggest me the prior method for it?