# Duplicating Movie Clips and Content

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips-and-content/277594>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 14, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips-and-content/277594 "2008-12-14T11:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeancnicolas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jeancnicolas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jeancnicolas)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clips-and-content/277594/1 "2008-12-14T11:59:06Z")

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Hi there, does anyone know how to duplicate a movieclip, and all of it’s contents? The class only allows you to duplicate the first instance of the MC, so duplicating something a little more complex becomes itself difficult.

As I want to be duplicating an image, which has been made of other attached movies - would it be possible to ‘cache as bitmap’ - then duplicate this as say a ‘flat’ MC, so that all instances inside the MC are copied as one graphic MC …

Can anyone shed some light - or help with some pointers?  
thanks:inc: