# Masking attached movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-attached-movie-clips/197080>\
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**Created:** [August 13, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-attached-movie-clips/197080 "2006-08-13T17:37:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![flash1810](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flash1810](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flash1810)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-attached-movie-clips/197080/1 "2006-08-13T17:37:29Z")

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Hi there -

i am trying to apply a mask to some attached movieclips.

i am having some problems, i am assuming due to the depth difference between the mask (placed on stage hence with a negative depth) and the attached movie clips (positive depth).

i have tried swapping depths and also assigning a higher depth to the mask (using getNextHighestDepth), but nothing seems to work.

does anybody know of any way around this?

ta

(btw…is it possible to attach a mask?)