# Movieclip 'blinking' transition **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [May 23, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-blinking-transition/261120 "2008-05-23T10:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hapimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hapimp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hapimp)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-blinking-transition/261120/1 "2008-05-23T10:14:35Z")
Hi all. I need help with getting a movieclip to enter the stage. what i want is the effect of a fluorescent light coming on; in other words, i would like my movieclip to blink a couple of times really fast before staying on the stage. I would also like to remove it from the stage in much the same way. where i’m at now is im setting opacity to 0 on enter\_frame and then starting a really fast timer and setting opacity to 1 when it completes. then start another timer, setting the opacity to 0 and then… you get the picture. Does any of you know if theres a smarter way of doing this? I have a lot of movieclips i want to act this way, but i cant write a class because they have different reasons for doing it. Thanks, Esben ---
**Author:** ![Felixz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Felixz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Felixz)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-blinking-transition/261120/2 "2008-05-23T12:46:04Z")
maybe RENDER Event will help and function ```auto clip.visible=!clip.visible[/AS] ``` ---
**Author:** ![hapimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hapimp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hapimp)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-blinking-transition/261120/3 "2008-05-23T13:10:41Z")
yes, thank you, i found out how to solve it using that. Thanks.