# Delaying the playhead

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-playhead/67948
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 20, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-playhead/67948 "2004-10-20T20:31:20Z")
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### Author: ![brockus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@brockus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/brockus)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-the-playhead/67948/1 "2004-10-20T20:31:20Z")

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Does anyone know how to delay the playhead in Flash? Remembering Director, there was an option to make the playhead wait a certain amount of seconds. The only way I can figure out to make a moment in time stand still right now is drag out a cumbersome amount of frames…

Thanks in advance,  
Brock