Is it possible to set an entire layer to alpha 0 on start of movie?

Hi,
I have a movie with a movie clip inside it. IN the movie clip
I have one layer with several different images along the timeline
that are all named img2. I'm wondering if it's possible to set that
entire layer to transparent on the start of the movie. I tried
mainMovie.img2._alpha = 0;
But it doesn't work because inside of the movie clip
"mainMovie" there is no img2 until the second
frame. If there was a way to make the whole layer transparent that
would be awesome. Thanks.

You can't set the alpha of a particular layer - _alpha is a
MovieClip
property. You can set your entire clip's alpha to 0 though.
If you're in
root and your clip containing the images has an instance name
of 'content'
you can say content._alpha = 0;
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