Can I have both at the same time? Whenever I break my object apart its alpha reverts to 100%. I really need to find a way around this. Thanks in advance.
you can… sort of.
Try this on a new blank project.
Select frame one. Place a square of fill in it. Select the frame again and in the “frame” panel set it to “shapetween”. set a keyframe on frame 30.
With the playhead on frame 30 select the square of fill on the stage. Open your “mixer” panel. Make sure that the ‘fill’ swatch is highlighted, then grab and drag the Alpha bar down to 0.
The other way to do this would be to take your shapetween and place it inside a movieclip, then edit the movie clip’s alpha depending upon the desired results.