# Movie fading

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 30, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920 "2003-03-30T05:12:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![spike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@spike](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/spike)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920/1 "2003-03-30T05:12:43Z")

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Ok, i’ve got a movie, and i’m making an intro for a lil thingy i did, so i wanna fade the movie out, how do i go about doing this?!?!?:q:

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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:** [March 30, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920/2 "2003-03-30T05:23:52Z")

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change the alpha setting in a tween (guessing you dont know actionscript)

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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:** [March 30, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920/3 "2003-03-30T05:30:10Z")

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Ok…i’m so confused and frusterated. Ok, in my movie, theres an accual movie of a car on a dyno test. NE Who! The movie is only 285 frames long and from frame 265 to 285 i want it to fade out

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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:** [March 30, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920/4 "2003-03-30T06:45:52Z")

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Hey-  
This is kind of cheating, but it is a really easy way of doing it. Create a new level above everything. On frame 265, insert a key frame and draw a big black box over the whole stage. Select the black box and hit F8, convert it to a movie clip. On 285, create a keyframe. Right click inbetween these two keyframes and hit Create Motion Tween. Click on the frame 265. Go down to the properties panel to where it says color. In the drop down box, chose alpha - change the alpha to 0%. Thus making a box that slowly appears over your movie. Voila.

I would have made you a .fla, but I’m at work and don’t have flash. Hope this helps anyway!  
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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:** [March 30, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920/5 "2003-03-30T06:55:05Z")

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or you can paste this script at frame 265

```auto
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha -= 5;
}

```

at frame 285

```auto
delete this.onEnterFrame;

```

and to set the alpha back to 100;

```auto
this._alpha = 100;

```

😉 =)

[size=1] **note.** dynamic text will only fade if you embed the font outline.[/size]

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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:** [March 30, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920/6 "2003-03-30T09:08:15Z")

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thank you very much, i did it the cheating way and looks fine, :evil: no one will ever know…hehehe

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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:** [March 30, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-fading/16920/7 "2003-03-30T09:24:50Z")

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The cheating way is fine but will take more file space than the actionscripting. So you know for the future. When you have time, you should play around with the actionscripting. You will probably use alpha quite a bit and it’s less time consuming to use AS.  
All in all, I’m glad it’s working for you!  
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