# How to reach to the instance name that inside of a movie clip?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 10, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-reach-to-the-instance-name-that-inside-of-a-movie-clip/327575 "2012-03-10T18:04:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sphynxinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Sphynxinator](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sphynxinator)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-reach-to-the-instance-name-that-inside-of-a-movie-clip/327575/1 "2012-03-10T18:04:04Z")

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Hello. I’ve started to Flash again after a long time. I’m excited. 😃 Whatever, my problem is simple. I want to reach a instance name from a movie clip. For example, I made a movie clip that has 2 frames. Name of the second frame is “secFrame”. There’s a movie clip inside the frame(i’m talking about the frame that named as “secFrame”) that has a instance name as “mcSecFrame”. Also the instance name of the main movie clip is mcMain. Now, the problem is, how I can control the mcSecFrame instance name with the code that is written on the mainTimeline’s frame? For example, I want to control its frame rate. I wrote this:

mcMain.secFrame.mcSecFrame.frameRate = 5;

But it doesn’t work. I’m using AS3. Thanks for your help! If you can’t understand what I mean, you can look up to the .fla file that in the attachment.