Freezing a movie clip

Could anyone advise how to freeze a movie clip at the last frame so the image stays on screen during a voice over?
Thanks everyone

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How to freeze a movie clip?

Hi,
I am new to flash, and I've never done animation before, so I'm a little confused on how to make a symbol movie clip, freeze and then keep moving.
Do I need to do it frame by frame?
I made a character walk from off the stage to the center by using a motion tween and it appears to be moving because I edited the symbol to make the legs move. But now I don't know how to make the legs stop when the character reaches the end of the motion tween. Is it even possible?
I hope I explained myself clearly...All help is appreciated.
Thanks

the moving legs should be a movieclip. that movieclip will be a child of the character movieclip. the legs movieclip should have an instance name on the character timeline (eg, legs_mc).
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Titles Freezing Movie Clips in Premiere 9

The video portion of my movie clips keep freezing when I add a title to it in Premiere 9. The audio portion continues playing without issues, only the video portion seems to be affected. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the help. I have looked at the information and will review it all again.
I just spent another 2 hrs. + trying to still resolve the problem. I have started a new project, I uninstalled and reinstalled with their people, and when I was told a higher lever technician would get back to me in 3-4 days, I started to politely demand some kind of explanation for taking my valuable time. I have used Premiere Elements for years and now, after being told by their techs to upgrade to PE9, I am have a time-consuming issue.
So now, as it has been explained to me, they are going to look through the system log and try to discover from the "errors" what is causing this to continue. It has been established twice there is nothing wrong with my computer. Everything is upgraded, etc.
So, we shall see. In the meantime, I will review the information you sent. Thanks again!
I will keep you informed!
Twyla McConnell
"Just when the caterpillar
thought its life was over
it turned into a butterfly"
From: Bill Hunt <[email protected]>
To: Twyla McConnell <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 7:37 PM
Subject: Titles Freezing Movie Clips in Premiere 9
Welcome to the forum.
Not sure that we can help more than Adobe T/S, but this http://forums.adobe.com/thread/792580?tstart=0 has proved very helpful, when others have experienced crashes or hangs.
The first half of the article is devoted to the main causes of crashes. Beyond that, the links provide many troubleshooting tips, and rather work up in "order of difficult,."before culminating in The Case of the Unexplained, that offers some in-depth MicroSoft tips and also tools.
Good luck, and that helps,
Hunt

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Problem Solved.
To everyone that has experienced some version of this issue,
whether it be in previewing a load progress bar, or having
animation freeze on you while loading external movie files...
In test mode in flash, whether you are doing a simple test
movie or debugging, loading progress appears to not be threaded and
will freeze you movie until the load is complete. if you preview
this movie clip in a browser after publishing it, everything should
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Removing movie clips in arrays

Hi there
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Looks like I spoke too soon. I imagined that removing them from the array would be easy, but I'm struggling.
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I'd appreciate any help.
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hi how can i let a move clip complete his motion tween movement after dragging and dropping it
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import flash.display.MovieClip;
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Thanks for the resopnse,
I know I dont really need the name, I just need the index number of the array, but I cant figure out how to get the index name without specificaly coding for it. That is why in the listener event I use event.target.name because I dont know what movie clip is being clicked until it has been clicked on. Basically when a movie clip is clicked it needs to return which index of the array was clicked.
I could do it this way:
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MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    trace("I've been clicked!");
MapSquare[1].addEventListener(
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   function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
     trace("I've been clicked!");
MapSquare[2].addEventListener(
   MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
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... ect
but that is unreasonable and it kind of defeats the purpose of having the array in the first place. The code that each movie clip executes is the same, eventualy that index will be passed into a database and the data at that primary key will be retrieved and returned to the program. So I just need to know, when one of those buttons is clicked, which one was clicked and what is its index in the array.
I am a VB programer and in VB this is very easy, the control array automatically sends its own index into the function when one of the buttons is clicked. It seems simple enough, I just dont know how to do it in action script.
Thanks again,
-red

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