# \[HELP\] movie clip problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 6, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467 "2004-04-06T04:18:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Skinny\_T](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Skinny_T)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/1 "2004-04-06T04:18:49Z")
Hi, I’m having trouble with this movie clip problem. What I’m trying to do is when a button is pressed my movie activates (done) the prob. is I want the the movie to finish playing and then the next plays’ you’ll understand when you see it. Here’s the file
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/2 "2004-04-06T15:29:30Z")
actually no i dont understand after downloading the zip, care to explain?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/3 "2004-04-06T23:22:55Z")
ok, what i’ve got is when you press say button1 then the start of animation1 plays. What i need is when you press button2, animation1 finishes and animation2 starts. And I’ve got three buttons. Understand?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2004, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/4 "2004-04-06T23:43:28Z")
Can’t you do something like:
button2 --\> on(release) {
movie1.stop();
movie2.gotoAndPlay();
}
:h:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/5 "2004-04-07T00:50:26Z")
ive got three buttons, so there are three movies. so no, it wont work
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/6 "2004-04-07T04:03:41Z")
Why should it make a difference how many movies/buttons you have?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/7 "2004-04-07T04:10:16Z")
theres two parts to each movie. when I press button 1, the first part of movie 1 plays. Then when I press button 3 I want movie 1 to finish playing and when it finishes movie 3 starts.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/8 "2004-04-07T08:22:12Z")
That’s simple: on movie 1, u’ve got a keyframe in the middle with stop() on it. The last keyframe has stop() on it either. When u’r over button 1 (or just click it) you play movie1 (movie1.play()). Movie 1 will play till it reach the stop keyframe. Then on button 2 (or 3) u’ll have to play movie1 again (movie1.play()). Movie 1 will resume playing from the keyframe in the middle and stopping on the last frame. The same thing u’ll do with all the movies. Hope u’ll understand all what I have said to u 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-movie-clip-problem/106467/9 "2004-04-07T14:19:04Z")
Check out this sample fla by Senocular. Read the description - I think it does what you want to do - have one animation end before another starts all at the click of a button.
[clicky](http://www.senocular.com/downloads/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1074710021&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&kind=2)