# Movie clip within swf disappears

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-within-swf-disappears/161255>\
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**Created:** [September 2, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-within-swf-disappears/161255 "2005-09-02T06:32:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![joey\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@joey\_bear](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/joey_bear)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-within-swf-disappears/161255/1 "2005-09-02T06:32:00Z")

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Hello,  
I have created a swf movie consisting of several jpg’s and an avi. I converted the avi to a movie clip in order to fade it in and out, then saved the whole thing to movie.swf. When I publish it, it works fine.

The problem is, when I import this movie.swf into another swf (namely, a generic preloader where the third frame has this movie.swf file), the whole thing plays except for the avi! Why is it altering the contents of a movie it is just supposed to play?

Any suggestions?