Loop and stop separate movie clips in one animation

Question

I'm creating a small flash banner ad for a school project. I have multiple layers of animated snowflakes that are all MovieClips, and at the end of the timeline I have two text items that are MovieClips which slide in. What I can't figure out is how to have the snowflakes remain on a continuous loop once the animation has ended and have the text remain on stage at it's stopped point. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Put the snowflakes into their own separate MovieClip with a Timeline, and in that new MovieClip, put something like

gotoAndPlay(1)

on the last frame.

Then drag that MovieClip onto the main timeline, so it plays within itself.

Put the text into its own separate MovieClip too, and put a

stop()

on the last frame. And drag that onto the main timeline.