# How To Start Another Animation After One's Finished

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-start-another-animation-after-ones-finished/185218>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 11, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-start-another-animation-after-ones-finished/185218 "2006-04-11T20:05:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![lewnyflash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lewnyflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lewnyflash)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-start-another-animation-after-ones-finished/185218/1 "2006-04-11T20:05:09Z")

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Hi Guys,

Mcnoobie here you may say but Action Script is no way my strong point.

Anyway to the question. I was just wondering if there is a way to start a movie clip after one has finished playing so that they are both not running at the same time. I know you can do this with the timeline but this seems like a messy way of doing it and so was wondering if there was a simple way of getting about it.

Any help is appreciated guys:mario:

Lewn

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**Author:** ![Soig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Soig](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soig)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-start-another-animation-after-ones-finished/185218/2 "2006-04-11T20:25:57Z")

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Can you be more specific? How much time must pass before the second animation is played? What do you want to trigger it? etc…

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**Author:** ![lewnyflash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lewnyflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lewnyflash)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-start-another-animation-after-ones-finished/185218/3 "2006-04-11T20:29:33Z")

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Hi Soig, thanks for the reply.

Well want I want to trigger it really is when another movie clip has ended so that they don’t play at the same time. Suppose when come to think of it i could combine the animations in the same movie clip couldn’t I??

Lewn

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**Author:** ![lewnyflash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@lewnyflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lewnyflash)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-start-another-animation-after-ones-finished/185218/4 "2006-04-12T17:18:25Z")

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sorry guys but bump!

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**Author:** ![joe\_poth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@joe\_poth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/joe_poth)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-start-another-animation-after-ones-finished/185218/5 "2006-04-12T17:18:35Z")

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soig, any chance you can post the code for playing one movie after the other? would need a one second delay between clips, and would be triggered by a button press. would really appreciate it as it would cut down from the 200+ movies i would require to build to around 22. thank you in advance.