# Transparency within movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-within-movie/185931>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 17, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-within-movie/185931 "2006-04-17T20:05:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@mpr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mpr)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-within-movie/185931/1 "2006-04-17T20:05:20Z")

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I know how to make a movie transparent through HTML means as described in Kirupa’s tut [here](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/transparency.htm), but how does one make transparent the background of a movie clip that will be loaded into another movie?

To make it clearer, I have two movies; movie two will load into movie 1.  
I’m looking for info on how to set the alpha on movie 2 so that movie 1’s background will be seen (somewhat). I’d like to have some text with a scrollbar (call it movie 2) load into movie one so that you can still see some of movie 1 in the background.  
I’m afraid if I simply make a movie and load it in it will show up as a giant block with the canvas colour as its background. I’d like to make that background with a limited alpha.

I haven’t seen anything in the tuts that covers this one so any help would be appreciated! :book:

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ostmalm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@ostmalm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ostmalm)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-within-movie/185931/2 "2006-04-18T09:01:23Z")

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why don’t you try ?  
if you load your movie 2 on top of movie 1 it should be transparent.

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**Author:** ![mpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@mpr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mpr)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-within-movie/185931/3 "2006-04-18T15:32:35Z")

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> why don’t you try ?

lol. Dude, give me _some_ credit.

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**Author:** ![ostmalm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@ostmalm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ostmalm)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-within-movie/185931/4 "2006-04-18T17:11:27Z")

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here’s a simple example - hope that is what you meant