Re: Flash 3 Frame rate

[Scott Hamlin]

Troy,


First of all, thanks for looking at this.


<<Scott does the movie consist entirely of frame by frame animations or 

are there any tweened animations?>> 


The burgandy rotating dial shapes are tweened and the text motion and alpha

effects are tweeened. However, the large blue aperture is key framed. The

animations definately seems to be slow while the apeture and burgandy shape

move. 



>>The things that I have found to cause slow animations are using bitmaps,

gradients, and alpha fades.

I didn't notice much in the way of any of those.<<


Well, there are no gradients or bitmaps and only a little simple alpha

fading. However, I tested this before adding the alpha fades and it was

just as slow. Adding the alpha fades didn't seem to slow it down anymore.


<<Have you optimized your outlines?>>


Yes, the outlines are otpimized--although I did that in the vector app I

used to do the illustrations, not in Flash (I rarely illustate in Flash).

Does anyone know if imported AI files that are optimized (ie the shapes use

the minimum number of points/nodes) become unoptimized when imported. IOW,

does Flash add points to imported artwork. I'll check, but I was wondering

if anyone has an insight?


<<It seemed to come to me on 14.4k pretty swiftly, but response time for

rollover to animation was sluggish.<<


Well that's how it was for me. I'm on an ISDN, so it loaded in no time, but

the animation is brutally slow. 


Thanks again for the reply,


Still puzzled,


Scott



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