best size for screen

[thecrock]

I am creating an animation of flowers. The flowers should start out of sight and slowly rise up the screen. I am not sure what size to make my interaction. When i test the movie my flowers begin on the screen already and rise to the middle. I was under the impression that anything out the frame would not be shown on-screen until it was dragged out of the grey area of my stage and into the white area.

Does that make sense.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

You can mask the entire movie if you don't want show off-stage elements.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[thecrock]

How do i mask everything outside the stage?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Create a Mask layer and draw a Stage size rectangle. Then put everything under this mask. (If you want to do it with ActionScript have a look at "MovieClip.setMask()")

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[marias0]

You can establish your stage size in the publish settings.

Maria Santella
Technical Sales Engineer
ICP DAS USA
310-517-9888

http://www.icpdas-usa.com