FLASH: Please offer you advice...

[Beth Anne Wells]

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? Is

there a more economical way to do this in Flash?


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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