You can learn this technique in William Harrel’s Introduction to Adobe Flash CS4 over at Ed2Go.

The following steps fade several objects onto the Stage at the same time. These instructions assume that all the objects you are animating are currently on the same layer. If you already have your symbols on separate layers, skip the steps for distributing the symbols to layers. For this procedure to work, all objects you animate must be symbols.

1. SHIFT + click all the objects you want to animate.
2. Right-click one of the selected objects and choose Distribute to Layers.
3. Clear the frames on the new layers. Flash will insert new keyframes in the frame directly behind the last cleared frame on each layer.
4. In the top layer of the group of layers you want to animate, click the animation end-point frame to select it, and then, on the bottom layer of the group of layers, SHIFT + click the animation end-point frame. This selects all the frames in the animations’ end-point columns.
5. Right-click the selection and choose Insert Keyframe from the pop-up menu.
6. Click the animation start-point keyframe on the top layer of the group to select it, and then click the Pasteboard to deselect the  symbol. (Deselecting the symbol here is necessary because, while Flash does select the symbol when you click the frame, the selection is not in the correct state to apply an Alpha affect. The purpose for clicking the start-point frame was to get us back to that frame.)
7. SHIFT + click each of the symbols you want to animate to select them.
8. In the Symbol Properties panel, under Color Effect, click the Style drop-down and choose Alpha.
9. Set the Alpha percentage to 0.
10. Click the end-point keyframe on the bottom layer to select it, and then SHIFT + click start-point keyframe on the top layer to select all the frames on all the layers you want to animate.
11. Right-click the selection and choose Create Classic Tween from the pop-up menu.

Intricate stuff, huh? Your objects should now fade onto the Stage. I probably don’t need to point out here the necessity for precision. But I’ll do so anyway. It’s important that you follow these steps exactly. I suggest you watch the above video.

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Use this simple technique to fade symbols on to the Stage.

1. On the symbol’s layer, right-click the desired end-point frame for the animation and insert a keyframe.
2. Click the start-point keyframe on the symbol’s layer, and then click the symbol to select it.
3. In the Symbol Properties panel, under the Color Effect section, click the Style drop-down and choose Alpha.
4. Slide the Alpha slider all the way to the left, until the field next to the slider reads 0 percent. (I’ll explain Alpha in a minute.)
5. On the symbol’s layer, click the start-point keyframe and then SHIFT + click the end-point keyframe to select all the frames in the animation span.
6. Right-click the selected frames and choose Create Classic Tween.

The text string now fades gradually on to the Stage. We used the Alpha option to achieve this affect. If you use Photoshop or Illustrator, you’ll know this feature as Transparency or Opacity. Alpha controls the transparency of an object. Zero Alpha is completely transparent, and 100 percent Alpha is non-transparent.

William Harrel  - www.williamharrel.com

You can learn this technique in William Harrel’s Introduction to Adobe Flash CS4 over at Ed2Go.

To slide an object such as this logo onto the Stage, follow these simple steps:

1. Right-click in the layer where the animation will end on the logo layer and insert a keyframe.
2. Click the frame where the animation will begin on the logo Layer to select it.
3. Select the symbol you want to animate on the Stage
4. Hold the Down Arrow on your keyboard to nudge the selection downward, until the logo is just off the Stage. (You can also do this with our mouse, but it’s much easier to move objects in a straight line with the arrow keys. If you want the symbol to slide from a different location, hold the appropriate arrow key.)
5. Click the start-point keyframe of the animation, and then SHIFT + click the end-point keyframe to select all the frames that span the animation on the logo layer.
6. Right-click the selection and choose Create Classic Tween from the pop-up menu.

Good. If you Play the movie or drag the Playhead over the frames, we can see the logo slide on to the stage. Now, let’s tell Flash to fade and step in our tagline.

William Harrel – www.williamharrel.com