# Functionality question, best way to deal with multiple movieclips inside of one

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/functionality-question-best-way-to-deal-with-multiple-movieclips-inside-of-one/323531
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**Created:** [July 5, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/functionality-question-best-way-to-deal-with-multiple-movieclips-inside-of-one/323531 "2011-07-05T18:16:21Z")
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### Author: ![flashdaddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@flashdaddy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flashdaddy)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/functionality-question-best-way-to-deal-with-multiple-movieclips-inside-of-one/323531/1 "2011-07-05T18:16:21Z")

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Hey All,

I have a functionality question, hopefully someone can give me their advice on how to do this best.

I have three movie clips on my stage. Each one of those movie clips contains two child movie clips. I want to fade in/out the children movie clips so that one is visible at a time.

What I figured was to make a main movie clip

```auto
movieclip_holder1

```

and inside of that, have

```auto
box1 and box2

```

and then fade box1 in and out as often as I’d like. Then of course repeat these steps for my other two main movie clips

```auto
movieclip_holder2

```

and

```auto
movieclip_holder3

```

Is there a better way to accomplish this?