Resize a movie clip

Hi,
Here is the scenario:
I have a document with the following dimentions: 1000x700 px. In Scene 1 I have a movie clip called mc_master. Inside mc_master I have all the other elements (buttons, movie clips, graphics, etc.)
I need to resize the whole document vertically, so in Scene 1 I resized the document to 1000px x 850px. This created a 150px empty space in the bottom of the document. I wanted to resize mc_master to include this space (basically mc_master should cover the whole document). However, when I selected mc_master and modified its height property all elements inside stretched instead of just including the blank space at the bottom.
To simplify the question: is there a way to enlarge a movie clip without distorting the element inside it? I am assuming that I can create a new movie clip with the new dimentions in Scene 1 and then copy all the elements from mc_master inside the new clip, but I wondered if there is a better method of handling this situation?
Thank you,
Daniel D.

Thank you meqlomor,
This is what I was looking for.
Daniel D.

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