Movie Symbols

Movie inside the movie

During previous lesson you created Motion Tweening animation on the timeline of your file. So if your main movie lifespan is 60 seconds, lifespan of your animations may be 60 seconds or less.

Now imagine that you want to add some touch of animation to your symbol which is already moving – for example to make a flame which is going out of the rocket turbo engine. To create an effect of the flames like you can see below you will need to repeat flame pulsing many times for as long as rocket flies.

You may see that it’s not so efficient way because flame pulsing is time independent from rocket moving.

In Flash you may to solve this problem easily by creation a separate movies inside your movies. To make it you need to create a Movie Symbol.

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