Export fla as transparent movie possible?

Export as animated gif? Any other ways?

[Lvanhoff]

Hello,

I'm working with .fla files created by someone else, and I need to be able to drop them onto images in html, so the backgrounds need to be transaprent. I thought maybe it would work to export as animated gifs, but as someone else pointed out here in this forum, the images turn out jagged. But also, when I do file>export movie>animated gif all I get is the first frame, and there is no animation.

There are a LOT of .fla files on this site to work with, and I'm wanting to be able to take apart a flash built site and incorporate the .fla movies into an html site. In other words, the previoius designer did some fantastic flash animations the customer wants to keep, but I need them to be flexible enough to drop onto different backgrounds.

Any thoughts on how I can accomplish this?

Thanks so much in advance!

Laura

[Richard_N]

If the flash files in question do not have backgrounds defined in them, them using wmode value="transparent" in botht he IE and mozilla parts of the embed code in the HTML will make them transparant... it is very processor intensive though and il slow down your page load times.

This will not work if the designer say created a black rectangle full stage size on the base layer for the background colour.

[Lvanhoff]

Ah, thanks. Doesn't sound like it will work for me then.