Importing a Flash animation (SWF file) into Flash 5, or higher

Adding a custom Flash animation (SWF File) created with Amara Software into the Adobe Flash software is a snap. By following these simple steps, you will be up and running in no time at all and impressing all of your visitors with your talents!

Please make sure that you have copied and pasted the movie into the same directory as where you will save your master SWF file which loads the SWF movie into the Adobe Flash Software.

First create an Flash animation (SWF file) with one of Amara's software applications.

1. Open Flash

2. Save the SWF file as "loader.swf"

3. Left click in the first frame of the timeline

4. Right click in the first frame of the timeline. Now a popup menu appears.

6. Now the action windows menu pops up. Select from the left pane the loadmovie action

7. Enter the name of your SWF file (in this sample button.swf), select the desired level.

8. Now a small "a" appears in the first frame of the timeline. This indicates that you have added some actionscript to this specific frame.

9. To see a preview of what you have created, select "Control/Test Movie". The preview will only work after saving the loader.swf file.

10. When uploading the files to your web server you must not only upload the loader.swf but also the separate SWF movie that you created with the Amara software.