Re: FLASH: Please offer you advice...

[John]

Hi Beth,


> 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.

>

> 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


This would  probably run much better if created using Director which is

optimized for bitmaps or with one of the screensaver creation programs that

work specifically for this type of task of doing a montage of bitmaps.


John




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