[swfmill] Flash 8 filter properties in output swfmill SWF has problems

[Nirav V. Patel [USA]]

Hello,

I'm using swfmill to combine an existing SWF and some external assets
to make a new self-contained SWF. This existing SWF has been exported
for the Flash 8 player and has an object with a drop shadow filter.
Some timeline tweening of the objects is happening as well.

I noticed that in my exported SWF from swfmill I lose control of the
object.  The drop shadow is there, but it's visible on the first
frame.

Here is the existing SWF:
http://www.agencia72.com/swfmill/swfmill_test.html

Here is the SWF that was made with swfmill (it also brought in a jpeg image)
http://www.agencia72.com/swfmill/sample.html

swfmill xml:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

<movie version="8" width="300" height="250" framerate="15">
  <background color="#000000"/>
  	<library>
		<clip id="mainBanner" import="swfmill_test.swf"/>
		<clip id="ImportedImage1" import="test.jpg"/>
	</library>
<frame>
	<place id="mainBanner" x="0" y="0" depth="1" />
</frame>

</movie>
-   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -

There was a bug report filed a while back, but I was wondering what
the solution was.  There was a mention of having to do the filter in
actionscript, not the Flash IDE.  Is that my only course of action?

Best,
+nirav