Using scenes

Use scenes to organize a movie thematically. For example, use separate scenes for an introduction, loading teaser, or credits.

When you play a Flash movie that contains more than one scene, the scenes play back in the order they are listed in the Scene inspector, one after another. Use actions if you want the movie to stop or pause after each scene, or to let users navigate the movie in a non-linear fashion. See Creating interactive movies overview.

Scene inspector
 

If you organize your movie into several scenes, you may have difficulty implementing actions that use Wait for Frame when spanning scenes. In this case, a movie with one long scene provides better performance. You may also want to avoid scenes if you preload many actions in your movies.

To display the Scene inspector:

Choose Window > Inspectors > Scene.

To view a particular scene:

Choose View > Goto and then choose the name of the scene.

To add a scene:

Click Add in the Scene inspector or choose Insert > Scene.

To delete a scene

Click Delete in the Scene inspector, or open the scene you want to delete and choose Insert > Remove Scene.

To change the name of a scene:

Click Properties in the Scene inspector or choose Modify > Scene.

To duplicate a scene:

Click Duplicate in the Scene inspector.

To change the order of a scene in the movie:

Drag a scene name in the Scene inspector.