flash presentation

[angy]

Hi,

I am creating a flash presentation. It consists of several movies that load one after the other. It will run locally on a desktop of a computer.

I am using a lot of huge photos. I haven't bothered to resize them in photoshop because i don't have to worry about download.

However, my tweens are all appearing very choppy and jerky.

Why is this? Please let me know your answers. I really need help on this. My presentation looks bad. thanks.

 

[oldnewbie]

Definately reduce your picture sizes before importing them in Flash. Certainely not bigger than your screen resolution. Converting them to gifs or pngs might also help depending. If your tweens include alpha manipulations, that would already be a big enough stress on the processor.

Regards,

 

[angy]

hi,

thanks for your reply. I am using a lot of tweens because we are bringing in the photos using various cool looking transitions.

Each movie is about 3.5 to 4.6 megs. Is that too big for a local movie?

I am going to resize as many photos as I can.

 

[wangbar]

Those picture sizes are too big for Flash to work with smoothly.

Resize them so that they are no more than 72 pixels per inch which is the resolution that computer screens work at (anything above this resolution is wasted). This should make a huge difference to the file sizes and therefore to the performance.

For an image of 750 by 400 pixels (a typical Flash stage size) you'll be able to get your file sizes down to under 100k without a problem using Photoshop or Fireworks and still maintain excellent clarity.

 

[angy]

hi wangbar,

Thanks for your reply. My pictures are still at 300 dpi. My movie is 900 by 700 pixels. I'm going to resize everything. This should make my movie smooth.