# How to Fade Text in Movie Clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-fade-text-in-movie-clip/319363>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-fade-text-in-movie-clip/319363 "2011-02-17T19:28:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![megshea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@megshea](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/megshea)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-fade-text-in-movie-clip/319363/1 "2011-02-17T19:28:45Z")

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I have a movie clip that houses 5 text boxes. I need to fade up/down alpha of everything in it. As a test, using the movie clip that holds the text boxes seg\_mc.alpha = 10 doesn’t work.

Zero is completely transparent or 1 is 100%. Any thoughts? Thanks.