# Duplicating and changing property

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-and-changing-property/44259
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**Created:** [March 2, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-and-changing-property/44259 "2004-03-02T07:32:29Z")
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### Author: ![anand\_nair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@anand\_nair](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anand_nair)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-and-changing-property/44259/1 "2004-03-02T07:32:29Z")

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hello…  
i am working on a small puppet type applet for children.  
The puppets are individual movieclips with limited animation that can be controlled by key board input. say move hands or rotate body. Now i want a movie clip to get duplicated in to a plane graphic ( almost like a snapshot of the movieclip at that particular time. say, hands moved up) by a mouse/keyboard event. This should be a stand alone graphic symbol with a different name. I would change the properties of the parent movie clip later but those changes shouldnt occur for the duplicated symbol.  
Please help me out… thanks

anand.