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Subject: FLASH: My Mac Flash/Screentime screensaver is too much memory - help?
From: Beth Anne Wells
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:44:04 GMT

I created a screensaver for Mac OS by converting a Flash movie into a
projector and then running it through Screentime to make the
screensaver. Only one problem: it needs a lot of memory/processing
power to run. It ran fine on my 400mhz G3 (192M RAM) -- until I had an
application open -- and on my old PowerMac 8500, it wouldn't run at all.

How can I reduce/compress my Flash file so that it will run lighter?

Here's how it's set up now:

There are 50 jpegs (800pixels x 600px), each imported and converted into
a symbol in the library, and each on its own layer. Each jpeg is a
screen that plays for 20 frames and then fades away to show the next
jpeg on the layer below, and so on. The effect is just to loop these 50
different screens, fading from one screen to the next. And that's it.
That's the screensaver.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can compress this movie, so it will
require less memory to run?

Thanks in advance,

Beth



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