Re: FLASH: Please offer you advice...

[Grimmwerks]

>There are 50 jpegs (800pixels x 600px), each imported and converted into



That's just kind of huge, isn't it? I mean, how big is the file itself? 

I'm assuming a few megs, right? That's just killing the purpose of making 

a screensaver out of flash really...50 bitmaps at 800x600 ....jesus. 


How does Flash work, or screensavers? Isn't it trying to load these 50 

images into RAM to display on timeouts? Well no wonder!!!!


In my opinion, the advantage of flash as a screensaver is to create 

everything in vector, so that 1) the screensaver will be tiny - like at 

the most 800k! 2) no matter what resolution someone has they're monitor 

to, the flash file will scale up...in your screensaver, if the person has 

their monitor set to 640x480, the bitmaps will either be cut off or look 

horrible as they're scaled down (say, these bitmaps are 72 pixel 

resolution, right? NOT print resolution?) 3) vector can be loaded into 

ram quickly on any machine...


what is this for? I'm assuming an art installation or something where you 

have control of the machine right? I mean, you're not thinking that 

someone will download this screensaver as your portfolio or something, 

right?


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