stopping a movie clip

[minutman]

i am having trouble stopping a movie clip in an animation. i would like the rest of the animation to keep looping, but have this particular instance of a movie clip not loop. i have tried to a stop action using "with", but when i play back the animation, the debugger claims it can't find the object[ with (object) { stop() } ]. i have named this instance, and i do not know what i am doing wrong. when i simply add a stop() to the last frame of this object's layer, the entire animation stops. any help would be appreciated, thanks

[airheaded]

Hi there, Make sure your movie clip is on its own time line
then where you want it to end add a blank keyframe on that timeline. Hope that helps. Ed