Help please

[ToliveAnimations]

Hi, I'm pretty new to animating.
What I'm trying to do at the moment is get rid of everything that isn't on the stage. I've done the majority of my animation, but there are a lot of things that are half on and half of the stage (e.g when things are panning).
I want to get rid of these because I'm sure they'll add to the size of the file, surely there is a quicker way than having to ungroup everything so that I can crop and erase it all frame by frame. Also, this causes problems, because when I ungroup things over and over so that I can erase them, somethings get sent to the back ect.
Sorry for my rather wordy, vague question. If anyone understands, I would be very grateful for any suggestions.
Thanks

[SirAlex]

I don't understand what your saying, can you show me a screen pic?

[YomToxic]

Try removing the unwanted stuff from the library.

[ToliveAnimations]

At 7/13/11 10:42 AM, Alex616 wrote: I don't understand what your saying, can you show me a screen pic?

Hi, I'm afraid my print screen button doesn't work for whatever reason, sorry.
Basically, I'm using flash cs5. I want to delete everything in the grey area outside the stage, on every frame.
The way I'm doing it at the moment is going to take forever.

[SirAlex]

Wait are you using a Vcam?

[ToliveAnimations]

At 7/13/11 11:27 AM, Alex616 wrote: Wait are you using a Vcam?

Nope, don't have one. As far as I know print screen would be the only way of me showing you my computer screen, if that worked.

[SirAlex]

no,no,no the Vcam is a special type of camera for Flash it helps with zooming in and moving the screen basically whatever is in front of the Vcam will be shown in your animation.

heres the link to download it(It's free)

Actionscript 2.0

http://bryanheisey.com/blog/?page_id=13

Actionscript 3.0

http://bryanheisey.com/blog/?page_id=12

[ToliveAnimations]

Wow, thanks man. Doesn't exactly solve the problem I have at the moment, but it does mean that I wont have that problem again. Thanks so much. God damn newbies huh?

[SirAlex]

At 7/13/11 12:10 PM, ToliveAnimations wrote: Wow, thanks man. Doesn't exactly solve the problem I have at the moment, but it does mean that I wont have that problem again. Thanks so much. God damn newbies huh?

You're welcome and here's some tips

don't use too much movieclips or scenes

and for backgrounds that are not going to be interacted with your better off making it in Photoshop and then pasting it in Flash as a bitmap
so that not much memory will be added to your document

good luck and if you need anything else just PM me or post your problem in the forum many other people cam help you