- Insert a stop on the last frame before the cycling motion starts, where everything else starts being “still” but that one part continues to move. This will prevent the movie from starting over again before the movie clip can play.
- Select the frames of cycling motion on a single layer, starting with your lines, and right-click to select Cut Frames.
- Then click Insert->New Symbol (Ctrl+F8), and create a new Movie Clip symbol.
- On the movie clip’s editing stage, paste the frames that you cut onto the timeline.
- Back on the main scene, drag the movie clip that you just created onto the stage on your last frame, and position it to line up where it had been before.
- Repeat this for the color layer.
This doesn’t show up in a GIF preview, but you can click here to see an SWF version that demonstrates the cycling motion.
