Re: FLASH: site check/fps advice

[tom szewc]

Sharon, I just tested your short demo and it played fine.

I tested on a PC in navigator with a K6 2/350 processor with

a 56k modem w/ 512kb pipeline burst cache. Fairly fast!


The question is not the amount of ram the laptop has but the

CPU used. It doesn't really matter if it is played from your HD ram.

That is just helps the transfer rate.

I play CD games for my son on a cenrtis 610 w/ 040 processor the HD

is 60mb, the cache is 6mb but the cd player is 30x.

What is the megahertz, what chip, how many times

in the time line are you putting strain on the CPU with screen redraws,

multiple animation's and sounds. For example look at your time line for

multiple simultaneous changes, if you find lots of key frames lining up

in a row on top of each other you are putting a demand on the processor

at that point, which will bottle neck the data rate.

Try to off set them to spread out the processor use and you may

get a better animation at a lower frame rate.

Hope this helps

tom

ARTISiT

www.artisit.com


sharon almeida wrote:


> Hi everyone,

>

> I have a question about frame rate for a Flash movie for a presentation.

>

> I'm working on a 15 to 30 second animation that will be played back in a browser on a PC laptop with 96 MB RAM. This animation will be

> looped for about 5-10 minutes while the speaker's audience comes in the room and takes their seats.

>

> The Flash presentation that follows this animation is 960 pixels wide and 624 pixels tall, and the client would like the Flash animation to

> fill the screen or at least the width of the screen (the laptop resolution is 1024 x 768). What would be a preferred frame rate for this

> scenario?

>

> I did a test at 12 fps and the lines seem jumpy to me, even when I play it back on my hard drive. I exported this movie at 100 JPEG Quality

> and all the graphics have been converted to symbols. This animation will contain only continuous tone vector graphics. The primary use of

> this presentation is for speaker support (a la Power Point) but may be modified for web use in the future.

>

> What would be the alternatives? Lower the JPEG quality? Increase the frame rate?

>

> My current plan is to try a movie size of 960 x 360 and vertically center the movie in the browser on a black background.

>

> Here is my test:

> http://208.55.104.48/clients/test/html/flashtest.htm

>

> Thanks in advance for any advice! I really appreciate it!

>

> sharon

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