# Movie Depth

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-depth/24601>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 2, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-depth/24601 "2003-07-02T16:48:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Obelisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Obelisk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Obelisk)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-depth/24601/1 "2003-07-02T16:48:13Z")

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Hi All,

I have what should be an easy question.

My movie consit of a main timeline, a menu movie and some assorted content movies.

The question is I am building subMenu within the menu MC. However these subMenu (built by using duplicateMovie) appear above a transition effect (eventhough the transition effect is ona higher layer).

I am guessing it has to do with the subMenu depth being higher than the transition MC.

Can anyone tell me how i can get the depth of both MCs and modify them to my liking.

Gracias

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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:** [July 2, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-depth/24601/2 "2003-07-02T17:14:17Z")

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when you duplicate your movies, you put them on a new depth seperate from the orginal clip - something you specify and something, as you are defining, above your transition.

The easy route is for your transition to be above those clips - and how to do that?

transitionClip.swapDepths(100000);

or something to that effect 😉

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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:** [July 2, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-depth/24601/3 "2003-07-02T17:18:16Z")

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that was it. It worked. Gracias.