Gradient transparency mask for video

Hello-
I am trying to fade out the sides of an flv video to fade to transparent. I am then overlaying this swf file as transparent over a bkgd image in html. I have searched the forum, but can't figure out a way to do this.
Using CS4, need a Actionscript 2 fix.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.

I guess you're trying to apply the mask in FLASH. If yes,
then maybe the link below will help. Find the section about Alpha
Masking and down load the sample alpha mask .FLA file and take a
look at it. Hopefully it will help you. I downloaded it, but I'm
still unable to duplicate the sample within my own work. Good luck.
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/fl8/samples.html

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I'm still not seeing it. Your example does not have a pixel based layer clipped to the group which is causing my problem. I hope I can explain this. See below. the layers in the group create the "mask". In this case a b&w adjustment layer was added to control how the "mask" is converted to b&w. You can see what these layers look like in the mid section top section of the image. any color showing though is from the very bottom layer, as the group has a blend if on it allowing the shadows to come through. The top image has a curve layer with no adjustment, while the bottom image has a curve layer to clip more of the shadows. You can see this change in the upper right corner of both images. The curves are allowing more of the image to be clipped in the area is masked out on layer "Layer 0 copy 1", as more of the color of the base layer is showing though. However, that b&w areas are suppose to be just the mask and you should see the b&w, just color as seen in the bottom image. However, the curves are not changing the transparency in the areas that have the layer to return the color.
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IIIIIIIIII IIII II I I    I       I
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http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1F0EKmMs2abEs4PGS3Oe1wyCxJ1rsh
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