# Pause timeline, then resume?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/121656>\
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**Created:** [September 5, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/121656 "2004-09-05T06:05:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwhitmill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@jwhitmill](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jwhitmill)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/121656/1 "2004-09-05T06:05:27Z")

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Is there any way to get playback of a timeline to pause for, say, 5 seconds, then resume? I can put empty frames in to space it out, but I wondered if there were an ActionScript way to specify the pause interval.