FLASH : Make Objects Circular...ina sense..?

I need an animation for a spinning globe - so I got this animated GIF and then put each slide (7 or 8 of them) on one layer's consecutive frames and turned it into a Movie Symbol in Flash.

Now I put this symbol onto the main movie. The problem is when the spinning globe shows, it has this SQUARE background - which is white - so it hides things around the globe. But I want it to hide things only within the circle of the globe.

So How do I make the background of the globe transparent OR get a circular shape only?

See the attached image - I want the white area to go away and expose the blue area beneath it ....



Also: How do I make text revolve - i want a slogan to revolve around this globe....?

There is no way of making a gif animation and get a transparent background.

To make a transparent background of a picture, you need to have it like this:
Every picture from the animation should be in two parts, one is the picture with a black background, and the other is the same picture with a white background but the image itself should be all black (like a shadow). In this way you bitblt the two pictures, first the shadow then the normal one, using first vbSrcAnd, and the other one using vbAndPaint.

You should do this to all pictures on the animation, and then show them (BitBlt them) in the correct way to create an animation.

One of the guys here have on his website the full description of using BitBlt to make transparent background.

I hope you understood,
Happy to help,
Arie.

As I understand you want flash - why not save these frames individually to GIFs (non-animated) but WITH transparency? I'm pretty sure it goes to flash, but the conversion to movie may be the dodgiest part. I'm not too sure.

Thanks guys but I got it -


Save each frame as a PNG-24 in Photoshop (Remember to keep the transparency) and then do File->Import in Flash - that'll keep the transparenency.

:)