# External Movie Control help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-movie-control-help/134743>\
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**Created:** [January 21, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-movie-control-help/134743 "2005-01-21T01:08:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Twin\_Turbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@Twin\_Turbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Twin_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-movie-control-help/134743/1 "2005-01-21T01:08:50Z")

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Hi all, new here.

Anyway, I’m having a bit of a problem. I have a main movie that loads an external navigation movie into level 1 and a content container in level 2. What I want to do is have the menu in level 1 control the content in level 2. I am having problems actually doing this. I’ve been thinking about putting a movie clip instance on the 0 level main movie, the menu would then control that movie clip and the movie clip in turn controls the level 2 content container (by going to a frame 3/label and having an action in each frame to control the level 2 content container) However, this seems to be very clumsy to me and I’d have to create a separate level 0 control clip to control every different movie loaded into level 2. HELP?? … basically, can you control an external movie laoded in level 2 from a menu thats externally loaded into level 1.

Thanks,

Marck