Help! Movie Fade in onframe, play 5 sec., then fade out on frame

[cleancreative]

Hey all...

would it be possible to tell me how to do this effect.

I have a movie instance named "sparkles_mov" as in internal movie, not loading externally.

It's placed multiple times on the stage.

I need an AS code for the first frame of the entire stage that makes all instances fade in at a specific frame number (5), last for XXX amount of seconds and then all of the instances to fade out at a specific frame number (70).

Is this possible?

I have all instances fading in using this AS code placed on the frame that they enter on but the fade out never works, the just abruptly disappear:

sparkles_mov._alpha = 0;
fadeIn();

function fadeIn(){
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(sparkles_mov._alpha <= 99){
sparkles_mov._alpha += 5;
}else{
delete onEnterFrame;
}
}
}
}


timer = setInterval(this, "fadeOut", 4000); //where 4000 is 4 seconds


sparkles_mov._alpha = 0;
fadeOut();

function fadeOut(){
this.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(sparkles_mov._alpha >= 1){
sparkles_mov._alpha -= 5;
}else{
delete onEnterFrame;
clearInterval(timer);
}
}
}
}

Thank you all muchly for any help here!

[samac1068]

Shouldn't the second 'sparkles_mov._alpha' be 100 and not 0. That is why it is abruptly fading out.

[cleancreative]

i tried it, doesn't work. :-( in-fact, none of the fade functions work now. I've got something completely wrong in that code and I can't figure it out. :-(