How do I make a movie clip transparent

[jambu]

I am completely new to flash and have just started to work my way through the tutorials here -

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_in_a_flash.html.

I am only on the second video and am trying to place a movie clip onto a background (20 mins in). The instructor simply places the clip on the background and it is already transparent, when I do this I have a white rectangle covering part of the background as in the size of the movie clip.

I may have missed something but I have redone this part of the tutorial with the same results.

Can anyone tell me how to do this? btw this is the trial version of CS3 I am using if that makes any difference.

Thanks in advance.

 

[jambu]

Errr, by transparent I mean the background of the clip.

 

[dmacster]

I don't know if this helps, but here's an answer to a post I had that worked for me.

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1492908&page=1

Donna

 

[jambu]

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately that isn't what I am trying to do.

In the tutorial The animation is created and stored as a movie clip symbol in a fla file. Then a new fla file with a background image is created and the movie clip fla file is imported as a library.

This movie clip is then pasted onto the background. In the tutorial the clips background is transparent so you can see through it to the background image. In my case when I paste the movie clip over the background image the background of the movie clip is white (non transparent) and obscures the background image.

So in summary, how do I make that movie clips background transparent like the one in the video tutorial?

 

[Leozack]

To be honest, if I draw a few shapes and select around them all and combine them into a movieclip symbol (F8) then if I drag and drop taht symbol out from the library onto something else, anything in the symbol that wasn't originally drawn (aka the background) isn't part of the symbol and is therefore transparent. If I draw a grid of black squares leaving the white background inbetween, then select the grid and make it a symbol, only the black areas are included in the symbol, the white background areas (document background colour is set to white) aren't, so when it is pasted back down onto say a green background, the black squares are there and in the 'holes' the green shows through. You'd have to document exactly what you're making into a movieclip symbol and what you're doing with it to get more help.

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