It looks like you might want to send your playhead back to some frame other than frame 1 — to whatever makes sense after the very beginning fade-from-black.

Something like this might work:

if (!loopCount) {
  var loopCount:Number = 0;
}
loopCount++;
if (loopCount <= 3) {
  this.gotoAndPlay(80);
} else {
  this.stop();
}

… where 80 is hypothetically a frame that fits in terms of looping but appears after the fade in. Obviously, you’ll need to find whatever number applies in your case, and you may need to tweak the animation to loop cleanly.

Does that make sense?

I was able to make my banner loop a few seconds into the animation, but there is some type of delay where it blackscreens between takes. You can check it out on the enterance to my site.

Thanks for your time.

Cool, thanks!

To Mike …

That’s high praise! Probably a bit too high, but thanks in any case. Glad I could help.

I can’t tell you how much you’ve helped me. Thanks again!!

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Yay! Glad to help.

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Many thanks.