# Applying both tint and brightness to a movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323>\
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**Created:** [February 7, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323 "2004-02-07T20:32:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Moses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@John\_Moses](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/John_Moses)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/1 "2004-02-07T20:32:33Z")

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is it possible? when i edit one and go to edit the other the previous setting is lost. is there a way using actionscript to set both?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/2 "2004-02-07T20:33:52Z")

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search for setTransform

sen has a very nice explaination of the color Object

Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/3 "2004-02-07T20:37:22Z")

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who is this sen you speak of? forum member?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/4 "2004-02-07T20:38:16Z")

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one of the mods, why?

Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/5 "2004-02-07T20:39:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by John Moses \*  
> \*\*is it possible? when i edit one and go to edit the other the previous setting is lost. is there a way using actionscript to set both? \*\*

movie in a movie?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/6 "2004-02-07T20:40:00Z")

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i ran a search for setTransform by the user sen and no results where found

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/7 "2004-02-07T20:40:47Z")

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ah, sen is short for senocular. thanks for the help

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/8 "2004-02-07T20:41:08Z")

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ah

yes, senocular

Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif)

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/9 "2004-02-07T21:40:47Z")

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you kind of have a conflict of interest since brightness is just tint with white. So you might want to approach it with a color first, then blend that color with a certain amount of white or black (for brightness) and then apply that with setRGB.

These may help:  
blendRGB() :  
[http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=601](http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=601)  
reduceRGB() :  
[http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615](http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615)

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/applying-both-tint-and-brightness-to-a-movie-clip/42323/10 "2004-02-07T21:57:27Z")

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out of the blue, to the rescue…

thanks sen

you’ve helped me a couple times on this issue

Rev ![](http://aulman.com/rev.gif)