Re: FLASH: Layers and memory issue

[Brad Merritt]

>Collectively, the flashers on this list are extremely helpful!  Thanks to

>all! 

>

>OK.  Here's my first list question (and I've been on for a month now):

>

>Does anyone know off hand if *solely* having more layers in a movie makes

>it larger than a movie that does the exact same thing functionally with

>fewer layers?  I'm not talking about other streamlining techniques

>(i.e. grouping, symbols, etc.).  Just layers.  For example, two movies

>have the same number of instances of the same symbols doing the same

>things (same number of masks and guides also); however, one of them uses

>two layers and the other uses seven.

>


Actually I find that the more layers I have the smaller and faster my

movies are especially with text and drawing effects. Look at

www.pmg.net

At first the drawing effect was done by erasing the page a little bit at a

time and reversing the frames. So the drawing was all one layer.

But, when I borke each line into an individual layer, the movie was about

33% smaller and ran faster on lower end computers.

Same with the typing effect for text. Its been my experience that layers

add nothing, but more frames does.


Brad Merritt


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