if this is even possiblr can someone please explain how i would go about it?

I'm way too far along to go back and load them into container clips.

STILL...I don't know. In the time since you first posted have you tried to find
a tutorial on the web. Or perhaps even cobbled together a test file to see if
it works? Personally I don't use levels because I find them to be more
difficult to work with than movieclips. Why would it be too far along to use
container clips?

Easiest way: make sure to have a stop() action on the first (empty) frame of the movie you want to load. Then simply load it into a
level using loadMovieNum() or loadMovie() and issue a _levelX.play() when you need the movie to start playing.

John

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I assume you mean to have some kind of graphic or text representation of how
far along the load is? In that case, what I have found would seem to suggest
you can't. Unlike an empty movieclip which can be addressed, it appears there
is no way to address a level that has no content. But you could always try and
report back with your findings.