Slow animation on mid-range machines

[James Clark]

Hey Flashers,


I've got a question for ya. I have an animation piece that is 600 x 400, and

I'm doing fade-ins and fade-outs on a large gradient sphere that takes up

roughly 2/3 of the screen.


Naturally, the animation runs fine when viewed from a PII/300, but on a

Pentium 150 laptop, it crawls (and don't even think about viewing it on a

Quadra!!!).


So, here's my question. Does Flash have performance issues with animations

that occur over a large area? Or, does Flash have performance issues with

color/alpha transistions with large gradient-filled objects?


I'm thinking that I may have to kill the large fade-in and only do small

animations in order to keep the speed up, or redesign the site without

gradients. 


Any tips, ideas, etc. on how to improve performance in a flash movie? 


Thanks in advance!


Jim

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James W. Clark

Sr. Specialist, Web Development

Nortel Interactive

jwclarknt [dot] com

(972)685-4362


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