# Tracer effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracer-effect/52076>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 19, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracer-effect/52076 "2004-05-19T18:18:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![gary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@gary](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gary)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tracer-effect/52076/1 "2004-05-19T18:18:12Z")

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I have been trying on and off for a couple of months to figure out how to duplicate a movie clip in motion on the main stage to achive a clean fade out behind the clip.

I have made a crappy effect duplicating a tween and offsetting it but it takes to long to reproduce and it doesn’t look as great as I would like it to.

Here is a link to the crappy version of the effect I’m attempting to achieve.

[click to the crappieness](http://www.7thapex.com)

Forgive the corny-ness of the site, I was on a brushed steel kick