FLASH: Movie clip design

[Len Harrison]

No one's mentioned this to my knowledge so I thought I'd put it out there as

a possible guiding principle. I've found in working with movie clips you

want to scale dynamically within a presentation, that it works best to make

them large and scale them down along their timeline rather than make them

smaller and then try to increase their size dynamically. This gets more and

more true the more layers of nested clips you have. When you make them

larger, everything not only gets bigger but the spaces between do too, and

things seem to get out of hand and go off-screen very quickly. Smaller is

better.


Does anyone else find this true or is this a personal, one-way, perceptual

lapse?


Also, does anyone have a good solution for dealing effectively with

positioning clips that scale or move around a lot? I find myself dropping

the little cross-hair/circle things in approximate positions and then

fine-tuning them through several iterations of test movie. I've considered

creating a dummy symbol for positioning purposes by cutting and pasting the

clip's extreme positions or sizes, but haven't implemented it. Wasn't sure

it would be worth the time to do that. Thoughts?


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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