Once you have added
all the images onto the keyframe in a way that actually animates. The images
have to follow the numerical order. In other
words, you cannot skip around in choosing which image to use or not use. You
have to follow the same consecutive pattern in setting the images in a
series on your timeline. Once you have done all that, your movie should look
like my image below: (Make sure to remove any extraneous blank keyframes
after you are done pasting all of the images)
The image has been edited to fit on this screen
Now,
you're done with the movie symbol you created at the beginning of this
section. Click on the "Scene 1" icon on your top-left to be taken
back to the main page. To add this movie to your main scene, go back to the
library and drag the movie clip that you named onto the main timeline. You
should see the first keyframe of the movie only. See image below:
That
is all there is to importing, exporting, re-importing, and using a movie
clip in Flash 5. You can now use that movie clip in your animations as you
would any regular movie clip. You can go back to the library and try to
optimize the images more by right clicking on them and choosing Properties.
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