How to crop a Flash Movie
Sometimes we may need for some reason to “crop” a Flash Movie, but unlike Photoshop, there is not “crop” command.
How can we do?
Using the ’size’ button, set a new height and width for the flash movie based on your flash design.
At this point probably some of your movie images will be off of the stage… dont’ worry.
Unlock all layers.
Click the “Edit Multiple Frames” button, it’s is just below the flash timeline.
Now click the “Modify Onion Markers” button and select “onion all”.
This button is to the right of the “Edit Multiple Frames” button below the flash timeline.
At this point the onion marker above the flash timeline should be across all frames of the flash movie.
Now in the main flash movie menu choose “select all”, or use your mouse to select all the objects on the flash stage.
All the frames containing objects should appear selected.
Now you can move your entire flash movie to where you want it in the new stage size.
This will keep all of the animation and tweens and layers in proper sequence and order, just like if you cropped the movie
They can be easily customized to meet the unique requirements of your project.
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Great tip dude!
Worked perfectly! I can put my headache pills back in the cupboard!
Thanks
Thanks so much for this. You’ve saved me a lot of time.
Thanks so much, Emanuele! I thought I was going to have to spend the entire weekend redoing my animation. This worked perfectly!
Hey…thanks so much. !!!! I have been looking for this EVERYWHERE! Was trying to isolate a navigation button and break it apart from main movie. This helped so much.
Great, easy to follow instructions. Thanks for the post!
You made my day. Why can’t Adobe make this an easy-to-find solution? Thanks for sharing it.
Cropping is cropping, what does it have to do with moving objects around?!
WOW this has really helped in my page layouts and formatting.
Matt
Thanks for the information. It is woeking perfectly.
Regards,
Naveen
THANK YOU! You rock.
THANK YOU!!
Hi Emanuele,
Actually this works if you have the .fla file. there is any way to crop a .swf?
thanks!
THANK YOU !!! VERY MUCH
THANKS!
lifesaver!
thanks
AS a Flash newbie I was a bit miffed when I had created something and released it saved the whole stage.
This tip saved me a LOT of time :)
Cheers
GREAT tip! Was afraid it wasn’t going to work in Flash MX (what I have at work) – but it does!
Note: Consider throwing some icons that show what the buttons you’re referring to look like. Took me a minute to figure them out by trial-and-error (for some reason my tooltips don’t always pop up).
Thanks!
thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!
I thought I was going to have to spend days re-working a project until I saw this
Thank you Emmanuel.
I know a game graphics animation designer who really appreciates this – the edit M frames is so important..! thanks for pointing it out.
Jakob, DK
This is how you can crop a flash stage, in case you just wanted to make a logo or something, smaller:
1) Right click on the stage
2) Select Document Properties
3) Alter the stage size to suit.
That’s it.
Russ