Change The Color Of A Movie Clip

setColor(mc, 0xFF0000);  //Changes the color of the movieclip to red

function setColor(mc, color):void {
 var colorTransform:ColorTransform = mc.transform.colorTransform;
 colorTransform.color = color;
 mc.transform.colorTransform = colorTransform;
}

Create Empty MovieClip

Here is a snippet that creates an empty movieclip. This is useful when you want to load external images or swfs into it.

var emptyMovieClip:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
emptyMovieClip.name = "emptymc";
addChild(emptyMovieClip);