# MC instance on main timeline play in order

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-instance-on-main-timeline-play-in-order/46249>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 22, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-instance-on-main-timeline-play-in-order/46249 "2004-03-22T22:57:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sakura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sakura](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sakura)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-instance-on-main-timeline-play-in-order/46249/1 "2004-03-22T22:57:41Z")

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I don’t know if my title is clear enough, but I’ll try to clarify.  
I have one MC on the main timeline, and duplicates of the same MC one after another. So basically 8 of the same MC lined up beside eachother.  
Now the tricky part. I want halfway through the original MC, to jump to the second MC instance and start from frame1. Now the dilema is, that if I make an actionscrpit on the MC, it affects all the MC lined up together, because they are an instance of the original.  
Could I use the duplicateMovieClip command, and how?