Re: FLASH: Flash limits.

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

John,


Flash should be seen from two points of view.

On one side we have it's small swf file sizes when compared to

alternative graphics or animation files, gif jpeg mov etc. This is what

makes Flash superb for web based graphics and animation, and as a plus

it is streamable.

On the other hand as soon as Flash arrives on the client machine we

enter a whole new area that is processor intensive. This stems from the

very nature of vector based graphics. When you add to this sound and as

you refer 'heavy bitmaps' then you  take the rendering engine to it's

limits.

What comes into play here isn't how fast your machine can get the file

into memory or even how large the available memory area is, it's how

much raw processing speed you have and some operations are much more

costly than others. When you set a frame rate think of it as the speed

limit you're setting for your movie and not as the average speed you

would like to run the movie.

P.S. : Sometimes background processor intensive threads can slow things

down more than normal. Some of my design machines run such threads and

this gives rise to some strange effects on occasion.



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