Hop wrote:

> I have a movie clip that I am trying to have start at a specific time
> in the parent timeline. The parent timeline actually has a goto
> action that makes it loop the last 30-40 frames infinitely. Now,
> right before those 30-40 frames is where I'm trying to start a movie
> clip which has its own looping action (longer than the 40 frames of
> the parent's loop. My movie clip ends up being governed by the
> parent's loop (ie, it's restarts back at the place where the parent's
> loop starts instead of using its own timeline to determine its loop).
> In a related matter, I'm having a hard time understanding how the
> tutorial example has a one frame parent timeline under which a 200
> frame movie clip plays, and if I define one frame where MY 200 frame
> movie clip should start, it just plays that one frame -it doesn't play
> its own timeline like the tutorial. What is the tutorial example
> doing that I'm not?
>
> Thanks,
> Hop