# Automatic stopping of the movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175>\
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**Created:** [April 11, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175 "2006-04-11T15:46:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![dunger99us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@dunger99us](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dunger99us)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175/1 "2006-04-11T15:46:18Z")

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Hello, here is what i have:

I have a movie clip of a person talking( with loop at the end of the last frame it goes back creating an illusion of continuous talk)

I also have a sound layer where an actual sound is being played

on the third layer i have an animated movie clip with text slowly aopearing from the bottom of the screen and dissapearing on he top. here are NO problems, just to give you a picture.

what i want is that

when the sound has ended playing, or the movie clip with text has ended as well - to stop animation of the speaking head.  
is that possible?

please help

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**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175/2 "2006-04-11T16:02:05Z")

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at the end of the sound clip just target the animated person with a stop, as in

```auto
talkingclip.stop();

```

you can do the same with the scrolling text - just make sure you target the movieclip you want to stop from the end of the sound or scrolling text.

:hr:

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**Author:** ![dunger99us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@dunger99us](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dunger99us)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175/3 "2006-04-11T16:40:51Z")

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strange i have added the following line to the end of the scrolling text,

paul.stop();

but it still “talks”

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**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175/4 "2006-04-11T16:57:37Z")

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You may have to add a timeline reference. For example, if the movieclip “paul” sits on the main timeline you can use \_root.paul.stop(); or if “paul” resides on a timeline that is one movieclip out from where you have the code you can use \_parent.paul.stop(); if it’s on the same timeline you could even use this.paul.stop();

are you familiar with the targeting tool? I find that helps a lot for figuring out where movieclips are in relation to where I am writing my code.

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**Author:** ![dunger99us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@dunger99us](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dunger99us)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175/5 "2006-04-11T16:57:57Z")

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i figured it out,

\_root.paulstop();

thank you:)

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**Author:** ![dunger99us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@dunger99us](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dunger99us)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175/6 "2006-04-11T16:59:01Z")

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i have just posted the answer 🙂 and saw your soluiton is exactly the same. Great help.

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**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/automatic-stopping-of-the-movie-clip/185175/7 "2006-04-11T17:12:12Z")

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hey awesome you figured it out :thumb: