Workflow with different symbols

[anastasi5]

I'm trying to animate a web banner, where my character, a fisherman, is just bouncing a little with the tide - until a fish bites. I realize I can make him into a Movie Clip symbol to achieve this effect - but how can I make the movie clip stop? Do I end that instance of that symbol and insert a Graphic Symbol version of the fisherman?

Also, I drew his body and limbs as different Objects on individual layers and Parented them - when I converted all the layers into the Symbol, I lost that parenting. Should I have waited to Parent the layers after converting to a symbol?

[Nicktendo28]

At the end of the movieclip timeline add HTML5 script stop

/* Stop at This Frame
The timeline will stop/pause at the frame where you insert this code.
Can also be used to stop/pause the timeline of movieclips.
*/

this.stop();