flash actionscript: I have a 748 x 240 swf movie that I am loading into a 1012 x 570 main movie.
The animation for the 748 x 240 swf movie has movie clips leaving said area, as
intended.

The problem is, when I load the 748 x 240 swf movie into the larger main
movie, I can see the movie clips that go beyond the viewing area. Is there a
way to limit the swf movies viewing area to just 748 x 240 and not see what
happens beyond that? Thanks in advance!

there is, mask it.

Good suggestion..but I have dynamic text in that smaller movie and dynamic text
doesn't like to show up when there's a mask. I tried it many different ways
with the mask, so is there no way without one?

If your mask is rectangular (as it shoud be according to your desdription), and
you attache it via script it should even work with dynamic text where the font
is not embeded, otherwise embed the fonts.

In some cases a (white) Layer with a hole the size you need sometimes can do
the trick, if you can order tha rest of teh layers to your liking.

No other ways to solve that, at least not to my knowledge.

tw, I too don't like that behaviour.

If your mask is rectangular (as it shoud be according to your desdription), and
you attache it via script it should even work with dynamic text where the font
is not embeded, otherwise embed the fonts.

In some cases a (white) Layer with a hole the size you need sometimes can do
the trick, if you can order tha rest of teh layers to your liking.

No other ways to solve that, at least not to my knowledge.

tw, I too don't like that behaviour.