Topic: Importing GIF in Flash

i'm trying to play a gif in flash but want to make it a movie first, so i created new symbol, import gif, put action>play in first frame and inserted it into a single keyframe in the main scene... yet it does not play the gif... anyone help?

you need to be sure you have a stop action on that key frame (unless its just one frame movie)where your movie clip is(on main stage)..... also you dont need a play action on firstframe of movie clip...... also make sure you have enough frames on the main stage to cover your assests (so to speak)..........

should werk *srug*



[This message has been edited by mel (edited 05-31-2002).]

lo;l... thanx a lot

I don't know what you mean by "play a gif". If you want an animated gif to play in Flash, it isn't going to happen. Put the animated gif in the html and the the browser play it.

If you have a plain non-animated gif, you can't expect Flash to know what "play" means. Does it move? Does it fade out? Does it shrink or spin?

You've gotta *make* the movie before you can play it.

if you have an animated gif you want to bring into a flash movie i'd use something like imageready and save out each frame individually then import each of those. importing an animated gif won't work in flash.

chris


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that's not true.
at least it worked for me.

i just imported the gif in the library and dragged it onto my scene.

flash mx automatically made keyframes for every frame of the gif.

ahhhaa i have flash5_ like i says create a movie clip.... then import your gif....... and presto...... it werks it works fine fer me....=)