Alpha tween using ActionScript

hey there. i have 2 noob questions that can be answered quickly. please help.

  1. In the attached file, I have a movie clip that quickly comes across the top of the screen (following a short distance). I want it to start out with 0 alpha and i want it to fade in to 100 alpha. However, I want to do this using Actionscript while I’m EASING the movie clip. I’m trying to NOT use the timeline and do automated tweens for this function. If I combine them, it compliles but the output gets all messed up.

  2. The quality of the text shown as the movie clip is not the same as how it looks in FLASH. I jacked up the quality of the output to 100% and it’s still the same. any reason why?

thank you.