Resizing a movie loaded with loadMovie()

I'm looking to resize a movie that was loaded with
loadMovie() into a movie clip. Once it's finished playing I want it
to reduce down in size. Any ideas?
loadMovie("test.swf",main_Movie);
main_Movie is the empty movie clip, its a simple rectangle
that is 550 x 400 so it fills the whole stage.
Any ideas, or if you need more info please let me know.
Rob

Rob-
You can scale movie clips by a percentage or resize by
directly manipulating the width and height values.
main_Movie._xscale = 50; //scale width by 50%
-or-
main_Movie._width = 20; //set width to 20 pixels
For more information check:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/00001570.html
I hope that helps.
Sean

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