Re: FLASH: Movie speeds

[Randy Kato]

Emma,


You can do what you're asking by getting the currentframe and then loading the

new movie and telling it to go to and play that frame, but there's another

option...


If you're movie doesn't have any single, unique frames (meaning you can get away

with dropping some frames here and there), you can speed up and slow down with a

couple of controller Movie Clips.


To speed up you'd just use a looping MC that would skip frames -- every other

one would be easy, but may be too fast so a little math could get it to skip

every 3rd or 4th frame. This would simulate a faster playback while using the

same framerate. When you want to speed up, just tell target the MC to play --

the MC tell targets the main movie, manually commanding it to go to specific

frames.


To slow down you could use the same type of controller MC and have it advance

the playhead more slowly. Half speed would be easy (just make it a two frame

loop that commands the playhead to go to the next frame of the main movie). If

that's too slow, use a very brief timer function to pause the loop for a split

second each iteration, and adjust the pause as necessary.


The controller MCs would be much more efficient, and avoid the hassles of

creating two more movies and loading them.


HTH,

Randy



emma wrote:


> Hello there.

>

> I have created a Flash movie which demos an application of my client. Now,

> he wants to be able to change the speed of the movie, while playing, with a

> click of a mouse (so he can go through some parts slower than other, for

> example). As far as I know you can't change the frame rate of a movie other

> than when you're in the Flash application itself. The only way I can see

> this working is by switching to a different movie of the demo, which has

> been created with a different FPS rate, when you click on the button. That's

> simple enough. However ideally it should switch to the same Scene and Frame

> as the movie that was just running. I have experience in Flash, but I'm not

> an expert, so I thought I'd better ask whether something like this is

> possible. Basically, can you load a movie at an exact scene and frame, with

> the target frame decided by which frame it just came from?


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