Watch the video tutorial on creating a reflection and masking the videoWindow

To create a reflection of the videoWindow make a MovieClip and give it an instance name of reflection. You can place it anywhere in relation to the videoWindow MovieClip but it looks best if it goes directly below.

The shape inside the reflection MovieClip can fade out by using a gradient that has an alpha fade applied.

For best results you can make the reflection MovieClip just slightly wider than the videoWindow MovieClip. If they are both the same width you may notice that the reflection is 1 pixel short of the width of the videoWindow.

Masks are very easy to create. Just make a MovieClip in the shape that you want the mask to be and place it over the videoWindow. Give the mask an instance name of videoMask. That’s it.

You can experiment with using wild shapes or text in the videoMask MovieClip. If you use text make sure that the TextField is of type static and not dynamic. Also, make sure that the font isn’t a device font such as _sans.