# Fade movie clip - mask

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-movie-clip-mask/97489>\
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**Created:** [December 23, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-movie-clip-mask/97489 "2003-12-23T02:23:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Drunken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Drunken)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fade-movie-clip-mask/97489/1 "2003-12-23T02:23:23Z")

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Heya!

I have a movie clip that is a motion tween with a shape with fade…

Now I want to put this mc as a mask … and showing a part of an image with lot of this mc’s

I know that I have to use duplicate movie clip, but the mc as mask isn’t working ☹

any help ?