Hi all! I'm not sure if this message was posted earlier, I think it got lost in the shuffle. I've been working with Flash for a couple of months and Poser (now Poser Pro) for a week or so. Having created a character for an online Flash game and animated her walking, I exported it to a SWF file. The file is 150 frames long and works fairly well and has a good balance of size/and image quality. I then imported the SWF into a FLA that I've been working on. All of the frames are key frames and are sitting on a layer called Walking East. No symbols were imported. I don't know how to position the animation where I want it to be (about four inches lower than where it is) without moving the graphic for all of the frames - which would be difficult at best. I also need to know if there's a way that I can convert all of the frames to a single movie symbol so that I can more easily use it with GotoAndPlay as well as with collision detection. Any advice is welcome. I'm not looking to rival anything on the PlayStation 2, but I would love to have a player being able to move a Poser character around the screen. :) mark@marigoldscafe.com

Really, all you need to do is create a new movie symbol and import all the frames from the animation to it and move that sybmol around. That way, you could position it anywhere on the stage you want. If you've stuck all the 150 frames onto your main animation, just select all of the frame and got to "Insert" on the upper menu and select "Convert to Symbol". Select "movie clip" as the behavior for the symbol. Make sure to put a "Stop" action at the end of your animation, or else you're going to get it looping over and over (unless that's what you want it to do). You could also copy and paste those frames into a "New Symbol" to create the movie. You could command instances to behave as a movie, or a graphic clip regardless other what type of symbol it is. Of course, the other option, which is a lot more of a pain in my opinion, is to lock all the other layers other than the Walking East layer, and select "Edit Multiple Frames" and select all the 150 frames and move them together. Again, I think it's better to change those frames into a movie symbol. If you have any specific questions, feel free to e-mail me at: visualkinetics@earthlink.net

Thank you for the help, I made them into a new movie clip and everything is running more smoothly.