Re: FLASH: Please offer you advice...

[Beth Anne Wells]

Thanks to both John and Grimmwerks for your replys.


Yes. I agree with you Grimmwerks -- Flash is made for vector not bitmap, and

50 HUGE jpegs is not a great idea for a screensaver -- but I didn't design

this thing, it was originally designed by another group who are PC not Mac

people, and they made a PC screensaver using another program

("Carousel-something"). Their PC version turned out fine (except for that

pesky monitor resolution problem -- you have to have your screen set to

800x600 or else it's a little chunky). They didn't know how they were going to

make the Mac screensaver, so they asked me to create it in Flash using

Screentime. I told them about the bitmap vs. jpeg problem, but this is where

we're at.


Another person also suggested using Director instead of Flash -- maybe we'll

try this route. I'm not really a Director expert or anything, but surely this

wouldn't be too hard to figure out. Hmmm...


Thanks again,


Beth



John wrote:


> 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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