# Do you have trigger a mc from the root?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-have-trigger-a-mc-from-the-root/117452>\
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**Created:** [July 27, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-have-trigger-a-mc-from-the-root/117452 "2004-07-27T15:38:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![pantherrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@pantherrun](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pantherrun)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-have-trigger-a-mc-from-the-root/117452/1 "2004-07-27T15:38:34Z")

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Hey;  
I’m the one that’s trying to link movie clips together and have a bit more info if someone can help.

Basically on my root timeline, I have frame 1 & 2, each containing a movie clip, but when i publish the movie all that plays is the first frame of each movie clip - inotherwards just what seems to be on the main timeline and not the entire Mc sitting in frame 1, say.

Question; i had assumed that i could place each moviclip on the root timeline, and as the playhead on the root timeline hit, say frame one , it would automatically start playing that movie clip’s internal timeline.

So, am i suppose to put some sort of scritp on say frame 1 of the root timeline that instructs the playhead to leave the root and go to the MC timeline and begin to play?

thnaks  
Hoss

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**Author:** ![xMetal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xMetal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xMetal)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-have-trigger-a-mc-from-the-root/117452/2 "2004-07-27T17:21:30Z")

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well, it should work as you say, when the playhead hits a frame with a MC it should start to play the MCs.

what could be happening is that the main timeline is looping it’s play, so each time it only gets to show 1 frame of your MCs before it loops around to the beginning.

Try putting a stop(); script on the last frame of your main timeline. This will keep the main stage for starting over.

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**Author:** ![pantherrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@pantherrun](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pantherrun)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-have-trigger-a-mc-from-the-root/117452/3 "2004-07-28T01:33:19Z")

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Hey you nailed it on the head - actually i had to do one more step - put a stop action on EACH frame in the root timeline and then each clip played - as an aside, any idea why each frame needed its own stop action?

Anyway, thank you so much for helping.  
Hoss