# Motion tweens not working (?)
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/motion-tweens-not-working/2520
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 21, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/motion-tweens-not-working/2520 "2002-03-21T10:37:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/motion-tweens-not-working/2520/1 "2002-03-21T10:37:04Z")
i’m making a load of little movieclips that i’m then placing onto the main stage. one of these movieclips has some fading text with a motion tween and negaive alpha, and there are some rotating and size transformations here and there… anyway: if i manually drag the timeline, i can see these efects taking place, but if i test the movieclip i only see the first tween (a text transformation - from little to big) and nothing else… ?
also, when i place the movie in the main timeline, i only see the same - none of the other effects (the negative alpha and the flips) ??
i did a ‘save as’ to ‘flush’ any crap out, but same results occur.
is there a limit of little movie clips you can have on teh time line? or is this something more sinister?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/motion-tweens-not-working/2520/2 "2002-03-21T11:05:54Z")
not a limit that you’re likely to encounter…
can you send the file to me? I’ll take a look at it today and send it back promptly. Either it’s an outright glitch, or it’s something that is unlikely to be solved through posts.
my E-mail is [upuaut@centerspin.com](mailto:upuaut@centerspin.com)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/motion-tweens-not-working/2520/3 "2002-03-21T12:58:29Z")
cheers for that
i appreciate it
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/motion-tweens-not-working/2520/4 "2002-03-22T02:16:48Z")
I figured it out. You had many of the text fields set as “dynamic” even though they were filled in with text. I don’t think that the dynamic text will let you do what you were doing. None the less, I’ve fixed what I found and sent it back to you. Hope it helped.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/motion-tweens-not-working/2520/5 "2002-03-22T12:42:11Z")
thanks very much
🙂