Using Movie Clips

Use movie clip symbols to create reusable pieces of animation. Movie clips have their own multi-frame Timeline that plays independent of the main movie's Timeline. Think of them as mini-movies inside a main movie that can contain interactive controls, sounds, and even other movie clip instances. You can also place movie clip instances inside the Timeline of a button symbol to create animated buttons.

Open the CREATE NEW SYMBOL dialog box.
Select INSERT / NEW SYSMBOL.
Type in a name for your movie clip.
Select Movie Clip.
Select OK.
The next screen that appears is the stage for the movie clip. This is where you create it.

Interactivity and animation in movie clip symbols do not work when you play a movie in the Flash authoring environment. To see movie clip animation and interactivity, choose CONTROL / TEST MOVIE or CONTROL / TEST SCENE.