In this tutorial it will be shown how to create an Adobe Flash 8 cool text animation effect by using alpha property and the Free Transform tool.

Create a new document about 500x100 and choose Frame rate 30 fps.
Draw a text field on the stage using the Text tool from the Tools panel and write your desired text inside.
In the Properties Inspector set the following formatting for the text field:
Arial Black, size 40, color #000000 like in the picture below:

Go to Window>>Align (Ctrl+K), press the To Stage button and center the text field vertical and horizontal.

Now insert a second layer and name it fade. Select the text field from the first layer go to on the fade layer, do a right click and choose Paste in place. Lock and hide the first layer as it is show below:

Select the text field from the fade layer, then right click and choose Convert to Symbol (F8), choose Movie Clip and name it FadeTextEffect.
Great job! Having selected the first frame of the fade layer go to the Properties Inspector and choose Motion from the Tween drop down list. Now go to frame 30 and insert a Keyframe (F6).
In the frame 30 of the fade layer do the following: using Free Transform tool from the Tools panel extend the movie clip like in the next picture:

Now go to back in the first frame, select the movie clip and in the Properties Inspector choose Alpha for the Color, 100%.
Do the same in the frame 30, but this time select 0%.
You have only one thing to do: unlock and show the Layer 1, then select frames 2 to 30 and press F5.
Great job! Now test the movie Control >> Test Movie (or CTRL+Enter) and see the result:

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