# Pausing a movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-a-movieclip/320468>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 24, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-a-movieclip/320468 "2011-03-24T09:49:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![handemmet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@handemmet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/handemmet)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-a-movieclip/320468/1 "2011-03-24T09:49:52Z")

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Hi

I tried to get this right but it just won’t work for me. It’s probably something very simple.  
I have a video in a movieclip on my timeline. On the first frame, I have the stop(); command. I want to be able to hit the SPACEBAR: which results in pausing the movieclip and jumping to frame 2 on the timeline.

Can anybody help me with this please.

Thanks