I just got Flash to launch and I have discovered there is a roundabout way of doing the same thing. It involves the timeline and converting a Motion Tween or Classic Tween into a FrameByFrame Animation or Converting Tween to Keyframes, respectively.
Create a star shape of reasonable size on the stage in a solid color that is easy to identify. Create a symbol out of it. Create about 30 frames of it on the timeline as a single frame that extends from 1 to 30. Convert this 30 frame range to a motion tween or if you know how to make a classic tween from this point forth do that instead.
The last frame will be the same symbol with a blending mode applied where you have placed a Tint of a different color to the symbol.
Then convert this motion tween or classic tween into individual keyframes.
This is the part where I get stuck. Normally you should be able to distribute all of the frames to individual layers but since they are the same symbol it only takes one frame and places it on a new layer. So you have all of your individual keyframes but you would have to manually drag them into place on top of each other. The only other idea I have that i just thought of is somehow manipulating the Movie Clip symbol into a Graphic that spans 30 frames within one frame so that all 30 individual frames display simultaneously at a given frame. This is a theory that I don't think will work but there has to be an easy way to distribute the layers of a blend to individual frames and layers that can reside on top of one another.
