Problems animating alpha in movieclips

[Thomas Nordén]

I've got a problem that is driving me absolutely mad... I have a movieclip (mc_content) in which I have placed a dynamic text field.

I then want to animate mc_content so I've created mc_animate into which I've placed mc_content. And here my problems start. I want to tween mc_content to go from alpha 0 to alpha 100 but it simply doesn't work. I can change tint, brightness, rotation etc. but for some darn reason it won't change the alpha.

Can someone please, please give me a hint on what the heck I am doing wrong?

[Thomas Nordén]

I managed to solve the problem; I needed to embed the fonts and then I could animate the alpha (but isn't it strange that it is possible to animate tint and brightness without having to do so?).

[mouse619]

you saved me. that was driving me insane. I agree with you though, and find it strange that everything else works except the alpha.