Flash Movie Stutters

[vmckinney]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to teach myself Flash and I've run into a bit of a problem. I've built a simple movie that runs just fine on my machine (P4, 2.8, 1 gig ram, WinXP home)but when I look at it on another machine (P3, 400, 512ram, WinXP pro) it slows down significantly.

 

The Movie can be found here

 

It's a pretty small movie, I can't believe it would force any machine to work that hard. The P3 has a pretty crappy video card - an old Voodoo 4 - so I'm wondering if that's what the problem might be. Would someone mind looking at it and let me know what you see? Thanks in advance for your help!

[TCH-Bruce]

I just looked at it with a P3 500mhz, 256mb ram and it looked fine to me. Not choppy or stuttering. More info, IE6 on Win98

[sts]

Try changing quality to Auto High in HTML

 

<param name=quality value=autohigh>

quality=autohigh

 

and see if it helps

[vmckinney]

Thanks for the help everyone!

 

The problem seems to have been the number of alpha adjusted items I had on the screen. Originally each little car consisted of several copies of itself all layered on top of one another and off set by a pixel or 2. I then adjust the alpha on each layer in an attempt to make each car a little blurry. That seems to have put a big load on the processesor and caused the stuttering.

 

I reduced each litte car to 2 layers, rather than six and that seems to have solved the problem. Unfortunately now all the moving objects are a little crisp in relation to the blurry background. Anyone got a technique for blurring vector art in flash?

[!!blue]

I don't think there's a way to "blur" vector art in flash other then how you just mentioned it. Unless you create it in Photoshop with no background, save as a PNG or a GIF (each support transparent backgrounds) and import to flash. Then animate the instance of the car. Don't animate the actual car on the stage, make it a Graphic object (Insert > Convert to Symbol > Graphic). That way the car is blurry because it's an image file. However, this might make the movie size larger cuz u'll be using images.

 

So in the Library, double-click on the imported file of the car and *opens Flash to double check* you'll get a dialog box: under compression chose Photo/JPEG then un-check "Use imported JPEG data" and enter a value to your liking. The preview and see which value you like. The smaller the number the more file size you save. In that same dialog box, there is a button called Test, when you click on it, it'll show you the original file size of the image and the new "compressed" size.

 

hope that helps,

!!blue

Edited March 11, 2004 by !!blue