# Pause movie?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-movie/42294>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 7, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-movie/42294 "2004-02-07T11:37:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![nizamm](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/nizamm/32/7613_2.png) [@nizamm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nizamm)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-movie/42294/1 "2004-02-07T11:37:28Z")

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I want to pause a movie for say like 7 - 8 seconds in various sections…I’m running the movie at 30fps and I don’t want to fill the timeline with frames for such a long period in these intervals…the animation is like a slideshow that automatically loads the next slide after a period of 7 - 8 seconds…is there any actionscript code that could control these intervals / pauses? I really don’t want to mess around with the timeline.

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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:** [February 7, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-movie/42294/2 "2004-02-07T13:38:11Z")

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You probably want to use setInterval. Try this topic, should help you out:

[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=35737&highlight=set+interval](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=35737&highlight=set+interval)