# Playing specific frames only?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 28, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552 "2006-03-28T06:03:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![flecc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@flecc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flecc)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552/1 "2006-03-28T06:03:24Z")

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Hey all,

I’m trying to loop only five or so frames from an entire movie clip, and I’m not quite sure how to do this.

Basically I have a man walk in and sit down as an intro scene (frames 1-6), and then from there playing just looping the ‘sitting’ animations (frames 7-11) until the user does something with the interface. can someone point me to a tutorial or help me out?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/c5a1d2/32.png) [@999](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/999)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552/2 "2006-03-28T06:09:35Z")

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On frame 11 put:

```auto
gotoAndPlay(7);

```

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**Author:** ![flecc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@flecc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flecc)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552/3 "2006-03-28T06:16:19Z")

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ive tried that, but its still playing the entire instance of the movie clip in the library, which has the whole animation of him walking in and sitting, but this time the instance on the stage is just in one spot.

im wondering if i could actionscript it so the instance on the stage only plays the specific frames where he’s sitting down?

the other thing i could probably do is just break up the entire animation into seperate movie clips?

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**Author:** ![me\_viscom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@me\_viscom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/me_viscom)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552/4 "2006-03-28T06:17:54Z")

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check out the tutorials in [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) its helpful in all means

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**Author:** ![flecc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@flecc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flecc)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552/5 "2006-03-28T06:36:08Z")

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thanks for the headsup.

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**Author:** ![Strength](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Strength](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Strength)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-specific-frames-only/183552/6 "2006-03-28T12:53:51Z")

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Are you looking for frame labels with stop instances maybe? 🙂