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About using a Flash movie in a Director movie

Once you have added a Flash movie to the Director cast, using it in your movie is as simple as dragging it to the stage and positioning it where you want it. You can then use the Flash movie sprite in much the same way that you use other sprites.

When working with a Flash movie on the Stage, keep these points in mind:

| A Flash movie's animation plays only as long as the Flash movie's sprite is actually on the Stage. (Flash movies resemble digital video and sound sprites in this regard.)
| Because a Flash movie uses a vector format, you can stretch the movie's sprite without loss of the movie's clarity.
| You can rotate, skew, scale, or flip a Flash movie just as you would a vector shape or bitmap.
| If the movie is set up to play direct-to-Stage, the movie will always appear on top of other sprites, regardless of the channel in which it is placed, and ink effects will be ignored.
| Only the Copy, Transparent, Background Transparent, and Blend ink effects work with Flash movies.
| Blend and color settings are supported for Flash sprites just as they are for vector shapes.