# Random pause in multiple movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-pause-in-multiple-movie-clips/328777>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 15, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-pause-in-multiple-movie-clips/328777 "2012-06-15T15:04:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlashFish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@FlashFish](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlashFish)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/random-pause-in-multiple-movie-clips/328777/1 "2012-06-15T15:04:19Z")

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Hey. I have 1000 identical movie clips that I’m having trouble dealing with. Ultimately I need them to ‘disappear’ one at a time with a little animation but I’m having trouble coming up with a method which doesn’t involve doing things 1000s of times.

Inside the movie clip I have animated the ‘disappearance’ over a few frames. What i imagine doing is including some code in the MC before the animation starts that pauses the playhead for a random amount of time (say between 3 and 20 seconds). This should have the effect of having all 1000 movie clips on screen for 3 seconds and then each one animated away over the remaining 17 seconds.

If this is at all possible, can somebody please point me in the right direction of what code i need to include? Any alternative suggestions are welcome!

Thanks in advance