# Duplicating MovieClips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movieclips/277997>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 19, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movieclips/277997 "2008-12-19T21:56:10Z")\
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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 19, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movieclips/277997/1 "2008-12-19T21:56:10Z")

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Hello, can anyone point me to anything which will help me dynamically attach movieclips from the library into one main movieclip, which then I can duplicate it many times…

You see, what happens with duplicateMovieClip, is that it duplicates the main movieclip itself, without taking its contents… I want to take the contents too. The only way I can imagine this could work, was if I could take a ‘snapshot’ of the movieclip and keep it as a bitmap, from which this could be duplicated - because I dont need the movieclip and its contents to contain code or have any animation playing. I just want it as an image, so I can create a pattern from…

Any ideas folks?