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Select Insert > Film Loop.
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Enter a name for the film loop.
Director stores all the Score data and cast member references as a new film loop cast member.
Note: Drag a selection from the Score to the Cast window to quickly create a film loop cast member in that position.
A film loop behaves just like any other cast member, with a few exceptions, as follows:
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When you step through an animation that contains a film loop (either by using Step Forward or Step Backward
or by dragging the playhead in the Score), the film loop doesn't animate. Animation occurs only when the movie
is running.
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You can't apply ink effects to a film loop. If you want to use ink effects with a film loop, you need to apply them
to the sprites that make up the animation before you turn the animation into a film loop.
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Lengthening or shortening a sprite that contains a film loop doesn't affect how fast the film loop plays. It changes
the number of times the film loop cycles.
Director provides three other ways of incorporating a completed animation into a movie as a discrete element: you
can export it as a digital video (QuickTime® or AVI) or a DIB file (BMP), save and import it as a linked Director
movie, or play it in a window in another Director movie.
Note: If you need to edit a film loop and you have deleted the original Score data that it was based on, you can restore
the Score data for editing. Copy the film loop cast member to the Clipboard, select a cell in the Score, and then paste.
Director pastes the original Score data instead of the film loop.
Setting film loop properties
To determine if a film loop is cropped or scaled within a sprite's bounding rectangle and to make the film loop repeat
or mute its sounds, set properties for the film loop cast member.
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Select a film loop cast member.
To display the Property inspector, select Modify > Cast Member > Properties, or Window > Property Inspector.
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If necessary, click the Member tab and display the Graphical view.
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The following noneditable settings are displayed:
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The cast member size in kilobytes
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The cast member creation and edit dates
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The name of the last person who modified the cast member
To view or edit the cast member name, use the Name text box.
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To add comments about the cast member, use the Comments text box.
To specify how Director removes the cast member from memory if memory is low, select one of the following
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options from the Unload menu:
3—Normal sets the selected cast members to be removed from memory after all priority 2 cast members have
been removed.
2—Next sets the selected cast members to be among the first removed from memory.
1—Last sets the selected cast members to be the last removed from memory.
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