# How to stop a movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-stop-a-movie-clip/303714>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 25, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-stop-a-movie-clip/303714 "2010-01-25T20:53:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luigi\_Vercotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Luigi\_Vercotti](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Luigi_Vercotti)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-stop-a-movie-clip/303714/1 "2010-01-25T20:53:59Z")

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I’ve got timer below and after sometime he calls function credits…

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var wait:Timer = new Timer(3000);  
wait.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, credits);  
//Start the timer  
wait.start();

where he says to my movie clip creditLine to start. That is OK.

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creditLine.visible = false;  
function credits (evnt:Event):void  
{  
creditLine.visible = true;  
creditLine.gotoAndPlay(“theStart”);  
}

…but I don’t know how to stop that movie clip. I tried to put stop(); at the end of the movie clip but it messes up the whole fla.:h:  
How do I stop the movie clip. The end has label “theEnd”

Please