# Controlling Duplicated Movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-duplicated-movies/37371>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 9, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-duplicated-movies/37371 "2003-12-09T14:00:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![session9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@session9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/session9)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-duplicated-movies/37371/1 "2003-12-09T14:00:04Z")

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Say you duplicate a movie clip called circle 5 times.

```auto

amount = 5;
while(amount>0){
     i++;
     duplicateMovieClip(_root.circle,"circle"+i,i);
     amount--;
}

```

Ive done that, and given them all random x and y positions, but say I wanted just one of those instances to have an \_alpha of 50. How would I do that?

Ive tried doing stuff like

```auto

_root.circle2._alpha = 50;

```

Thanks…:luigi: