Re: FLASH: 11th hour difficulties

[Cheri Harder]

Russell, hi!


My first guess is that a preloader is not going to help at all.  It isn't

the "download" time in this case that's causing it to chug, it's the

heaviness of the re-draws with too many things going on at once.  I don't

know how to explain it right, because I don't think it is the CPU itself,

but the video that it's having trouble with?  Maybe it's the CPU that has to

do the redraw?  I don't know the technicalities, but the truth of it is, I

would start with streamlining the parts that are moving more than one object

at a time, especially if it is a large object and/or has gradient fills, or

is a bitmap, or is a "complicated" drawing with many layers/lines

etc.....and not waste my time with a preloader that just isn't gonna help.


HTH


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----- Original Message -----

From: "Russell E. Unger" <

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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 6:34 PM

Subject: FLASH: 11th hour difficulties



> Hey folks...

>

> I'm doing a pretty sound-intesive piece and I'm in the 11th hour.  It

seems

> that I'm starting to chug through certain parts of the movie, even though

it

> is a locally run executable.

>

> Admittedly, there are a lot of minor errors throughout--I've stepped in

> toward the end to expedite the project for its deliverable date--and there

> are some sections that have too many fades, etc. happening at the same

time.

>

> My question is relatively simple:  Would building in a pre-loader remove

> most of these "Chugging" problems?  It seems to me that it couldn't hurt,

> but I don't know that it's the right solution.

>

> Thanks for the assistance.

>

> Kind regards,

>

> Russ



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