My image will not fade in our out

[Helen_Marino]

I have followed instructions to the letter (and know feel I understand Flash a bit better than I did afew days ago) however I cannot get an image to fade in or out.

I have attached a screen print.  I have changed the properties on the image 9which I changed to a movie clip) on frame 1 and frame 55 to alpah 0%.

When I click on the frames, frame 1 to 15 appear blank, the remainder are the image @ 100% and frame 55 is blank.

Am I making a really obvious mistake? 

I created motion tweens.

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Helen

[markerline]

It doesn't look like your Motion Tween keyframe at the end of each duration is actually existing INSIDE of the blue motion tween region.  You have to create a small dot on the last frame of your motion tween by going to that frame and changing the value.  You can also do this using the Motion Tween Editor.

[Helen_Marino]

Ok, I have CS4, so in order to create a motion tween I right clicked and inserted motion tween, but as you pointed out this did not include the frame at the end.

I have changed the key at the end to a motion tween and changed the properties on frames 1 & 2 and 49& 50 to alpha 0%.

My document will now fade out, but not fade in.  When I click on all the frames from 1 to 9 they all appear as alpha 1% for some reason?

(this is a new document - I realsie I will move the layers along at the end).

Your help is much appreciated.

[markerline · Accepted solution]

Great! You got them to fade in one direction--Out.  As you can see by the image you posted you have a small dot at the end of the motion tweens (the second set of motion tweens frame 40-49).  You now have to do the reverse of what you did with these motion tweens in the first set of motion tweens.  go to frame 1 of the entire timeline and at each motion tween select the movie clip and set its alpha to 0, then go to frame 9 and select the same movie clip and set its alpha to 100%.  Do this for each MC and you're set to go.  This is not actionscript so it's actually in the wrong forum but that's alright.  Next time for timeline stuff that does not involve AS, choose the appropriate Flash forum.  ActionScript 1&2 and ActionScript 3.0 is strictly forums for those specific topics that need coding questions to be answered.

Best,

-markerline

[Helen_Marino]

Thank you so much for your help, sorry about the wrong forum.

In the end I did exactly as the tutorial I watched said but instead of creating a motion tween I did it as a classic tween.  This then seemed to work with none of the problems I had encountered before.  I'm not sure why that would be?

Now all I need to work out is at frame 50 & 51 (and subsequent images) the image is 0% alpha which means it does fade to a complete blank, when in reality I would not really like this, it is a bit too obvious a changeover (my fps is set to 20).  Otherwise I am really happy with it.

I'll try and work on this, unless you have any immediate advice, or I can post it on the correct forum?

Thnaks again for your help.