# MX - Scaling and positioning issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-scaling-and-positioning-issue/69762>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 7, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-scaling-and-positioning-issue/69762 "2004-11-07T21:48:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![IceColdCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/35a633/32.png) [@IceColdCube](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/IceColdCube)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx-scaling-and-positioning-issue/69762/1 "2004-11-07T21:48:44Z")

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I have a movie clip  
clip01\_mc  
which contains another movie clip  
subClip\_mc

What I would like be able to do is… rescale the parent movie (clip01\_mc) without affecting the scale of the child (subClip\_mc)… is this possible to achieve? And is this possible to achieve whilst maintaining the positioning of the child clip.

so if clip01\_mc would scale to 500percent, the subClip\_mc would remain unaffected, although would reposition itself in relation to the scaled parent clip.

I believe that makes some sense… Is there a tutorial, or a similar post, at this stage I havent managed to find one…

Thanks for the help…