You're  right, cobaltdreams. I never got into Flash as a website creation tool, though.
I did find my old manual for Flash 4 which was about 275 pages as opposed to my manual for MX which runs over 1200 pages in two volumes. Talk about bloat, it's as bad as my waistline.
Anyway, playing around a bit further, I found that it is the trace bitmap function I was thinking of, which changes a raster image to a vector image. Unfortunately, that function takes forever on a large image and the results, even at the optimum settings, are not really suitable for my porpoises.
By the time Flash converts a 120 image sequence, we'll have Krell Plastic Manipulators running Poser 120. So much for easy shortcuts.

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