# Movie clip vs graphic

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-vs-graphic/8971>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 2, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-vs-graphic/8971 "2002-12-02T03:19:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Psykloak1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Psykloak1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Psykloak1)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-vs-graphic/8971/1 "2002-12-02T03:19:12Z")

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You probibly get this question alot but I did a search on the forum and couldent find anything usefull. My question is what is better to and in what situation?

I have been having one problem that maybe swtiching to Graphics can help:  
I’ll draw something full screen, symbolize it (as a MC) and then shrink it to size, but the lines shrink too. I dunno if this makes any sence but my main question is about the movie clip vs graphic.

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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 2, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-vs-graphic/8971/2 "2002-12-02T03:22:06Z")

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There really is no difference between the 2.

The only reason I can think of to have a graphic symbol is so that you can turn an imported pic (or drawn one in flash) into one so you can use \_alpha and whatnot on it.