# How to time the starting of an externally loaded movie after a specific part of main

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**Created:** [October 9, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-time-the-starting-of-an-externally-loaded-movie-after-a-specific-part-of-main/165274 "2005-10-09T22:40:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arunima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@Arunima](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Arunima)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-time-the-starting-of-an-externally-loaded-movie-after-a-specific-part-of-main/165274/1 "2005-10-09T22:40:22Z")

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Plz help with this…  
how to time the starting of an exteranlly loaded movie after a specific part of main movie has loaded…

I have a movie called mywork.swf, which is loading thumbnails and display (the display of main clip/ image when u click on any thumbnail) externally from a movie called thumbnail\_loaded.swf  
Now that is working fine…  
But the problem is here… in mywork.swf , I am also loading a movie called tbn\_detail.swf whihc has the detail of the work displayed (from thumbnail\_loaded.swf) and the serial number of the project page (like in [www.albertocerriteno.com](http://www.albertocerriteno.com) , in exhibition link click on any thumbnails and see the numbers with detail on top- thats exactly wat i want) but dont knw how to get it working…if some1 has a similar file or knws how i shd go about it plzzz help …im working on a deadline so any urgent help wld be much appreciated…

Thanks a ton