FLASH: RE: Site Check - Xaman

[John Mandia]

Hi People,


Thanks for responding to my request; the feedback was very useful.


>From the feedback below I have two questions:


*	My SWF file size is 453 which is too large.  If I remove the wav

file this drops down to under 100.  Could someone please point me to where I

can find a wav editing tool so that I can crop it and make it into a loop?

*	How do you make Flash start playing the movie before 90%?


I still have a problem with part 3 of the site where I intend to demo the

product.  I have two options: (1) Do a screen capture using snag-it and

convert it into a QuickTime movie. (2) Take a screen shot, import into Flash

and Trace Bitmap (The size of each image is very large) and then create a

mouse symbol and animate it.


If I use QuickTime I need to be able to create a button within it that Jumps

back to the main menu (Not the beginning of the main swf file).  I'm also

concerned about download times for QuickTime Movies (Is there anyway of

loading it so when they click on the button there is no waiting time).


If I take a screen shot and Trace Bitmap it crashes my PC half of the time

(Because I put it on the highest setting) and when it comes through the file

size is still too large.

To create a reasonable demo would push the file size over 1 MB. 


Can anyone please offer any suggestions?


Cheers,


John M



From: Mark McFadden <

mmcfaddenhome [dot] com

>

Subject: Re: FLASH: Site Check Please


Hi John,


the design itself I liked , very nice work...the dowmload time was way

to long but it didn't seem like file size was the problem. I noted

something in the neighborhood of 457k...is that right?

Anyway...I'm using a cable modem and it still took about 4 minutes to

d/l. Is it possible that you have the file set to wait too long before

playing the first frame? It didn't start up until about 90% of the page

had loaded.


respecfully,

- -Mark


From: "Chris Kemp-Salt" <

chriskredhouselane [dot] co [dot] uk

>

Subject: Re: FLASH: Site Check Please


hi john,


yeah apart from the long download its pretty kewl, I might be tempted to

speed up the animation a bit and make the "X"'s next to the main menu

options clickable...


yeah kewl though....



Chris


John Mandia wrote:

> 

> Hi People,

> 

> I am in the process of building a mini flash site and I was wondering if

you

> could have a look and give me some pointers.

> 

> http://www.xaman.com/demo 

> 

> I'm reasonably new to Flash so it isn't a fantastic demo.

> 

> Things I need to change are:

> 

> 1) File size is still way too large (I need to create a loop instead of

> having the entire wav file on there)

> 2) There are no detection scripts yet to see if they have Flash 4

installed.

> 3)The two remaining buttons aren't finished yet (One will be a form that

> they can fill in - which is w.i.p at the mo and the other has to be either

a

> QuickTime movie or screen captures within Flash with a mouse symbol etc.)

> 

> Any feedback appreciated!

> 

> Laters,

> 

> John M




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