# Setting a colorTransform for a clip affects whole movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-colortransform-for-a-clip-affects-whole-movie/239985>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 27, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-colortransform-for-a-clip-affects-whole-movie/239985 "2007-09-27T21:48:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charleh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Charleh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Charleh)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setting-a-colortransform-for-a-clip-affects-whole-movie/239985/1 "2007-09-27T21:48:42Z")

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I can’t seem to get my head round why when I set the colortransform object for one clip in my movie, it seems to affect the entire movie - textboxes and everything…

I thought that a colorTransform it only affected the specified and child clips in the movie.

Example - I have a lot of things attached to \_root.

I have a particular clip which is on its own and is attached to the \_root - this is my code…

```auto
 
clip.transform.colorTransform = new flash.geom.ColorTransform(0.05, 0.05, 0.05, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);

```

That seems to set the clip nice and dark as I want it to - but it also sets all other clips and all clips dynamically added afterwards to have the same colortransform settings… am I missing something from the CT object?