opacity

[stewart wright]

im just making my first flash animation and ive got on fine,transforming bitmaps into vectors etc,but what i cant do is make an object slightly transparent. is it possible to do this? and if so how?

[Jesse]

make your object a movie clip then:
manually - use the effect tab of the instance edittor to set the Alpha property to any value less than 100
or use code: _root.movieClipname._alpha = x; where x is a number from 0 to 100