# Determining the end of an external MC

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/determining-the-end-of-an-external-mc/180995>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 5, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/determining-the-end-of-an-external-mc/180995 "2006-03-05T12:06:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![denizengt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@denizengt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/denizengt)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/determining-the-end-of-an-external-mc/180995/1 "2006-03-05T12:06:12Z")

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I have a problem.

I have a container\_mc that loads in a external MovieClip, lets call it video1.swf using the MovieClipLoader class (it actually contains a video of a 180sx drifting but thats neither here or there). What I’m trying to figure out, is a way to find out when this externally loaded clip terminates, then preload and then display another clip, called video2.swf. I call my preloader and load my external clips into the MCL class using a version I learnt in Senoculars preloader tutorials here [http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/](http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/preloading/).

Any ideas?