# Controling Movie Clip inside of Movie Clip - AS3

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-movie-clip-inside-of-movie-clip-as3/281577>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 10, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-movie-clip-inside-of-movie-clip-as3/281577 "2009-02-10T22:11:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![dutchoh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@dutchoh1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dutchoh1)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-movie-clip-inside-of-movie-clip-as3/281577/1 "2009-02-10T22:11:57Z")

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Ok,

I was decent at AS2 and now that I am trying to figure out AS3 I am realizing that it is all grown up and I was left in the dust.

I am trying to do the most simple thing. I have a movieclip with an instance name of “clip1” with another movie clip with an instance name of “clip2\_sub” which is inside of “clip1”.

all I am trying to do is stop and start the “clip2\_sub” movie clip from the main timeline.

I know in AS2 you just would do something like clip1.clip2\_sub.stop(); I am trying to figure out why this doesnt work in AS3. I get the error of 1120:Access of undefined property clip1…

Any direction would be appreciated.  
Thanks Brian