help with extremely large swf - TOUGH ONE !!

[dazron]

Hello - hope someone can help me - I am trying to create / manage a movie that is very large - 2560 pixels wide - for a video presentation with a vision splitter (the logistics of which are sorted).
The problem is the screen is split into 4 sections, one for each screen. two in the middle, and two bookends.

The bookend screen on the far right is becoming corrupted and doesnt display - it just sort of motion blurs.

To clarify - it is one movie file, with 4 logical sections, the final section does not diplay in the resulting swf...

Can anyone help with this one ?

 

[davdesign]

This looks almost definitely as though its a problem with equipment/splitting rather than the movie itself.

What does the movie look like when you test it in Flash?

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[dazron]

well, I thought it was just so big that it was memory - so I ramped flash player with ram, and I mean ramped - 150mb. still no joy, and this is on a dual processor G4. It also does this on the guys that originally authored it on PC's -
I thought the biggest size you could make a movie was 2800, but this is only 2560 ...

 

[davdesign]

You say you're using a dual processor, is that for the final production on four monitors? ie: I'm slightly curious as to how you're splitting onto 4. dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[oldnewbie]

Wild suggestion here! Any way to switch that ending section to see if the section itself isn't the problem? Or else can you add another blank fake section at the end to see if the 4th one would work?
Does that make any sense?

B-) "Who's that guy with the shades... What's he trying to prove!”

 

[davdesign]

Also, you say you 'ramped' flash player to 150mB RAM. This ain't necessarily my thing so I don't know if that's a common phrase or not. If you mean that your holding 150mB RAM on your motherboard, it makes me wonder what spec your whol system is. ie:RAM, (got your graphics processor), main processor, HDD.

Just phoned a couple of friends. I work with guys who develop very complex 3d animations. They create for the common man/woman's pc spec, but if they were to do it to your scale they wouldn't think of using anything less than:

512mB RAM
Matrox G450 (dual)
30GB Firewire HDD
800MHz processor (at least)

dave dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[davdesign]

have you tried lifting the third monitor into the place of the fourth... ;-)

sorry, that was terrible dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[dazron]

well - its just a repeat of the first section anyway - and its not a hardware problem - anyway i've sorted it now I think . i copied all frames and made it into one movieclip, placed in a 1 layer movie.
then I can re-size it and make the move properties as big or small as I want.

Its very simple animation btw ...

 

[davdesign]

good luck with the presentation! dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[oldnewbie]

OK! OK! I did write "WILD SUGGESTION"!

Must I start calling you "kid" as with Melocco?

Back to my reading!

B-) "Who's that guy with the shades... What's he trying to prove!”

 

[davdesign]

lol

(mona is nice, eh old?) dave@davdesign.co.uk

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[oldnewbie]

OH! Thought I remembered her from somewhere!

Thought she was a scottish girl, or should I say a Scotswoman though! Must start praticing!

B-) "Who's that guy with the shades... What's he trying to prove!”