Flash Movie Clip Help

I've been trying to recreate the flash movie they have on
http://www.comcast.net/news/
its in the middle of the page.
I have everything except I cannot get that black fadein to
go as smooth and fast. I've tried making more frames
and less frames, but it doesn't seem to make open as smooth.
Is there a way to code a different fps for just the fade in?
or
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance

Your attachment appears to be lost in the queue... not abnormal for the new and improved forums.
Anyways, for what I think you are trying to do you should look into using the Tween class. If you Google "AS2 Tween" the first result you get (a Kirupa article) may be enough to get you started--I didn't look beyond that one. In your case you would probably be tweening the _y property of the page movieclip. When it comes to changing pages, you might also want to incorporate a listener so that you can first tween out the current page before you tween in the new page. You can have multiple tweens working at the same time for the same object, so you might want to add an _alpha tween into the mix as well.

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