I have created a digital timer movie clip to embed in an interactive step by step animation. When the movie plays a step the timer is supposed to show how long that process takes(i.e. how long it took an item to travel the length of a conveyer belt) then the movie stops and explains what will happen next. The user presses start and the next step is depicted in the animation. my problem is that the timer movie clip keeps running even when the main movie is stopped. I want it to stop when the movie stops wait for the user input and then start again so that in the end the user can see the total time that the entire process takes not counting time that the movie stopped between steps.