# Loading Images into a Movieclip and changing Width / Height

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-images-into-a-movieclip-and-changing-width-height/248263
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 6, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-images-into-a-movieclip-and-changing-width-height/248263 "2008-01-06T04:00:13Z")
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### Author: ![Soul814](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Soul814](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soul814)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-images-into-a-movieclip-and-changing-width-height/248263/1 "2008-01-06T04:00:13Z")

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Say I have something like this…

```auto

createEmptyMovieClip("photo",getNextHighestDepth());
photo._width = 800;
photo._height = 600;
photo.loadMovie("someimage.jpg");

```

Original file size is say 1024…

Can I resize the moviecip? It doesn’t seem to be working for me.

Figured it out… using bitmapdata class and a matrix + scaling