FLASH: Ensuring smooth playback

[Joe Tait]

I recently finished a small movie (20k, 12fps, Flash 3), which when I play

it back in IE 4.5 and Netscape 4.08 (this is on a MAC, btw), is _slightly_

choppy (admittedly IE was smoother). Since this is a file reading off of a

harddrive, it makes me worry that playback on the web will be pitiful.


The streaming graph plot shows that I don't exceed the "red line", even on

a 28.8 modem, throughout the entire scene. Most of the animation are

composed of symbols, w/ a lot of alpha channels and scale motion tweens. I

would say the most objects being animated at one time is 7. They are all

white stroked objects with no fills, and there is one small paragraph of

text that gets slowly revealed with a mask layer at the end.


Is this the type of animation that would require a lot of cpu horsepower to

redraw? What should I think about doing to ensure it plays back as smooth

as possible?


Thanks,


Joe


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