# Masking & duplicated movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-duplicated-movies/9482>\
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**Created:** [December 12, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-duplicated-movies/9482 "2002-12-12T16:49:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stanley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Stanley](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stanley)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-duplicated-movies/9482/1 "2002-12-12T16:49:16Z")

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I have a mask over an empty movieclip. The empty movieclip gets copied i times (and the depth of the new clips is set to i ) and a different .jpg gets loaded into the clip.

Okay, now the obvious conclusion / question: how comes that the mask only works for the original movieclip and not for the duplicates, and how can I fix this problem ?

Again, I will be grateful for your reactions  
cheers !

Stijn a.k.a. Stanley

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-duplicated-movies/9482/2 "2002-12-12T23:22:35Z")

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Well, 1 mask for 1 movie clip. As simple as that. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-duplicated-movies/9482/3 "2002-12-13T08:24:46Z")

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So I guess if I put the whole thing into another single movieclip, to which I apply the mask, all the clips (in the MC) should be masked. I’ll try. Thanks for that simple, but useful answer.