Re: FLASH: smooth color fades in a mc?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:29 PM 5/4/2000 , you wrote:


>i have a movie clip that i want to fade from black > blue > purple > red >

>yellow > white.

>i used the special thing but it's a choppy fade, it's sticking to web safe

>or something? is there a way to do this with the special tool or do i have

>to layer a lot of alpha adjustments?


If the movie clip takes up a large portion of the screen, the fades could 

be making too much demand on the computer processors (CPU and video).  If 

the object is less than 100% alpha, and there's a complex background (such 

as a bitmap), that will also add a lot of extra rendering computations to 

the effect and may slow things down. Sometimes a faster frame rate will 

smooth things out (but not often); sometimes a shorter tween (fewer frames) 

will give a better illusion (remember, it's all about illusion, not 

photorealism). Using a lot of alpha adjustments will almost certainly slow 

things down more. I think your approach is probably the best one. If all 

else fails, you may need to rethink the purpose of the effect and find 

another effect that accomplishes the same thing with less processing power.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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