# How to break up a movie clip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-break-up-a-movie-clip/319959>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 9, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-break-up-a-movie-clip/319959 "2011-03-09T21:44:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-break-up-a-movie-clip/319959/1 "2011-03-09T21:44:23Z")

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I know you can seperate a bitmap into seperate pieces, but what if I want to split up a whole animated movie clip? And have each piece still running its part of the animation? How would I go about this?  
Thanks.