# Flash Doc to MC?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-doc-to-mc/233188>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 20, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-doc-to-mc/233188 "2007-07-20T22:27:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tiziano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@Tiziano](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tiziano)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-doc-to-mc/233188/1 "2007-07-20T22:27:27Z")

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I made a mistake and started a new project by creating a button animation.  
My intent was to turn this into a movie clip and then use instances of it in the document.

Trouble is, I should have started it as a movie clip but didn’t. Now I’ve got this cool animation (5 layers / 20 frames) that I can’t get as a unit into a movie clip 😟 . When I select, copy and paste into a new mc, all it does is paste the whole selection into a single frame of the new mc. Not what I’m after.

Any ideas here?