# createEmptyMovieClip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createemptymovieclip/276124
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 23, 2008, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createemptymovieclip/276124 "2008-11-23T07:28:05Z")
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### Author: ![sivant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sivant](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sivant)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2008, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/createemptymovieclip/276124/1 "2008-11-23T07:28:05Z")

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i have a thumbnail gallery. all the thumbs are in an MC that i can slide to the sides. each thumb opens a big picture in a floating MC that has another empty MC that holds a big picture. i am trying to make a dynamic clip to hold the big picture so i can remove it each time because right now after awhilt the fllash starts to work very slow…  
my problem is that i dont understand why i cant create an empty movieclip inside my holder… here is the code(overlay is the name of my holder movieclip)

```auto
overLay._visible = true;
overLay.createEmptyMovieClip("bigHolder", overLay.getNextHighestDepth());
overLay.bigHolder.loadMovie(Items[m][2]);
overLay.createTextField("text3", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 16, 314, 380, 102);
overLay.text3.multiline = true;
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.font = "Verdana";
my_fmt.size = 11;
overLay.text3.text = Items[m][4];
overLay.text3.setTextFormat(my_fmt);

```

and here is a link to what the gallary looks like:[http://www.tamisivan.com/temp/amiDov/amiDovOp3\_3.html](http://www.tamisivan.com/temp/amiDov/amiDovOp3_3.html)