depending on how you want to animate it...one way would be to make a swim cycle against a flat background...render you movie as frames and take each frame into photoshop, or whatever, select the background to get rid of it and save as a png-24..thatll let you keep the alpha channel and import them all into Flash...at 12 - 15 fps it shouldnt be that much more work...but then i do things the long way usually...

the pain is i dont think Flash will import a seq number of png files...thats the one format i usually have problems with...

you could render an avi and chroma out the background using premiere or a movie editor too...then save it from there as quicktime or avi then import into flash...

mateo..your knowledge of trout physiology is frightening..;)..

Message edited on: 07/15/2004 15:21