# Help me please!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/27398>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 1, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/27398 "2003-08-01T22:20:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![caliguyinsd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@caliguyinsd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/caliguyinsd)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/27398/1 "2003-08-01T22:20:26Z")

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How Do I make a animation stop in a movie I’ve created. Like let’s say I have a text fading in and I want it to only do it once and not keeping repeating… I only want it to play once when the movie first loads. I tried going to Actions and then putting “stop” but it stops the movie. I just want that layer to play once and thats it. Any help would be greatly appericated! :player:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/27398/2 "2003-08-01T22:25:37Z")

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Heya.

Make the layer you need to stop a movie clip of it’s own, then give that movie the stop command, then place that movie into the main movie.

When the main movie starts, the second movie clip will play and stop without effecting anything else.

cheers!

FW.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/27398/3 "2003-08-02T06:09:26Z")

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You have a fla?