Best method for adjusting a movie clips brightness?

Can someone share their method for adjusting the brightness of a Movie Clip? With code of course : )
thanks!

under AS3 you can do this using the 'brightness' property of the Color class, as in:
import fl.motion.Color;
var color = new Color();
color.brightness = 0.5;
myMC.transform.colorTransform = color;
(ps. the range is from -1.0 to 1.0 negative being 'darken', positve being 'lighten')

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MUYconfundido wrote:
I am in the process of embedding 3 mp3's into a PDF to submit as a portfolio. The PDF also has text, and two scores included, and with the 3 embedded mp3's it can't be more than 10mb.
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I bounced out the three projects into wav's. Now I am using Switch for Mac to compress them down to smaller Mp3's.
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