Loading an animation at a specific point in the timeline?

Hello,
I am trying to find out if it is possible to start/load the animation based on a specific point in its timeline? The animation I am creating is a parallax animation based on mouse position and I am trying to load it in the middle of the animation and based on the users mouse position will play forward or backwards from that point. Is this doable?
Thank you

Hi, Bullvinne Designs-
What you'll want to do is to stick some initialization code into the compositionReady event from the stage. This will execute after the runtime loads and before the user sees the stage.
Thanks,
-Elaine

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