# Placing a registration point outside of a movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-a-registration-point-outside-of-a-movieclip/327614>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 14, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-a-registration-point-outside-of-a-movieclip/327614 "2012-03-14T17:19:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ieuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@Ieuan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ieuan)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/placing-a-registration-point-outside-of-a-movieclip/327614/1 "2012-03-14T17:19:13Z")

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I have an action script for a movie clip to rotate around (instance\_name.rotation -= 1;). and this works fine, how ever i need it to rotate around a point outside of the movie clip. i think i need to move the registration point but i dont know how to do this.