# Need help keeping external swf inside movieclip and not taking up the whole swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-keeping-external-swf-inside-movieclip-and-not-taking-up-the-whole-swf/301599>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 11, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-keeping-external-swf-inside-movieclip-and-not-taking-up-the-whole-swf/301599 "2009-12-11T21:36:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![lnsnelick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a183cd/32.png) [@lnsnelick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lnsnelick)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-keeping-external-swf-inside-movieclip-and-not-taking-up-the-whole-swf/301599/1 "2009-12-11T21:36:46Z")

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Hey everyone, need help here. He’s my problem, I have an external swf I want to import my swf, when I import into a movieclip, not matter what i do it, the external swf has code to where it resizes itself to the window, so how can i limit it to a certain resolution or size.

Any suggestions/help.

Thanks a bunch