scenes one or more

[crashb92]

i have been training with flash since 2008 but the only thing that i don't know is about scenes
im going to animate madness but my problem is should i animate all in one scene or different scenes and if u can plz tell me should i put the song that will play during the animation in one scene or in all of them if im going to use multiple scenes
sorry i posted this in a wrong section so im reposting this now here

[UknownXL]

I do not normally use scenes myself. I would only use a scene if things begin to get to cluttered.

[Damien]

It's also usefull if you want to use a menu for skipping to scenes nshit.

But on the otherhand you can just skip to a certain frame.

So yeh...Scenes are useless. I used them alot in the past...But slowly stopped. It's too time consuming.

[crashb92]

hmmm ok i will use them in menu only

[M-Shack]

Yeah it depends on how many edits and stuff you have to make. It sucks to use one whole scene then go back and add a few frames to the middle of the animation then have to look through 50 layers and move them all over a few frames. Scenes are to help you organize things and I guess feel more like you're making progress (feels good when you complete 2/3 scenes). If a Scene is really cluttered, it may slow down your computer too, so sometimes it's good to break up into scenes. One thing that sucks about them is when you try to bring stuff back and forth between them, sometimes they don't always end up lining up properly. It's not like they're hard to do, you press one button and rename it. Also makes it easier to work with in groups, other people don't want to sift through thousands of frames and hundreds of layers to find something.

Sound can go either way. If the song plays throughout the whole thing, just put it in the beginning and let it run, but there's a chance it might not sync up properly if your movie lags a little bit. If that happens, chop up the music and put it in the scenes when it is suppose to play and that should help so the whole movie doesn't mess up if one part lags a bit. So again, it depends on how in depth your movie is.

[V-K]

I would use multiple scenes.
Otherwise you could lose the overview if you have 30 layers and thousands of frames.
Also if you have scenes you don´t have to watch the whole movie again and again if you wanna test it.

[Ani-x]

I use scenes when doing my story art and often key poses.
but when im ready to get down to the nitty gritty I make a new document and slowly work all my scenes into 1 move.
Its just a organizational thing

[PBass]

I usually create a new scene for each shot in my animations as I work rather messy with my layers. It helps me organize things and keep my timeline and layers from getting too cluttered.