What you’re trying to do is pretty common, but always brings the same issue. Seems simple, but it happens often. In order to make calls to another mc, the MC has to exist on the timeline AND on the frame you’re calling the movie. Seems ridiculous, but it happens frequently.
Otherwise, you will be using something like attachMovieClip or DuplicateMovie Clip to get the desired action. So… _root.mc2 will not help unless the movie exists on that frame.
OK, you may be right Iammontoya (I mean what you said it totally correct) but as he said
basically I’m trying to start a movieclip from within an other
I thought it may have something to do with the path. And now that I think of it, are you sure you gave an instance name to mc2 ??