Whats the largest flash movie you've made?

[slacker]

For work, I am making a flash movie that is 2540 x 2048 :eek:
It is a promotional piece for all the products the company has done, and is designed to run across 4 monitors at the same time, each at 1024x768 (thus the massive stage size)

When we ran it on the test computer today, it was very interesting. At some points, the animation would be just fine, and run at the correct speed. At any point where I changed alpha settings, it ran quite slow and choppy. Also, it ran slowly at other points, but for no particular reason.

There is no actionscript that would bog it down.

The computer is a p3 1ghz, with 512mb of ram. Will upgrading the system fix the slowdowns, or does flash just not like running at big resolutions?

PS: Getting paid to work with flash ROCKS!

[FrozenMedia]

As you know the physical limit is 2880 both directions (I think). The major slowdown with large screens is anti-aliasing. Are you able to switch this off or test it with it off?

Otherwise I can see doubling the RAM and moving to a 2+ ghz would probably solve the slow-downs as you say it only
happens at certain parts.

Even better, use a 3rd party projector that supports DirectX rendering (I can never remember whether its Flash Studio Pro, ScreenWeaver or MProjector, 2 of those do though). If you can get the DirectX resolution to match the size of the 4 monitors you should notice massive speed increases.

Rich

It's a shame no1 else can test it for you, as it needs 4 screens!

[slacker]

rats. Looks like the 1ghz processor just cant handle all that flash goodness.
I am so jealous of the setup though. I think using 2 monitors is a luxury. 4 flat-pannel monitors just seems insane.

[FrozenMedia]

Nah....

http://www.9xmedia.com/pages-Build_a_system/X-Top_Expert---5_over_5.html

lol!

Rich

[slacker]

When I saw that I said sweet merciful crap out loud. :eek:
Im trying to think of a situation where that would be called for, and cant come up with one. lol

[scooter]

why dont you export to an avi file? Since you are only running this on the one machine? Or do you need the interactivity of flash? You could also try Director and use a few different swfs

[slacker]

I just tried making it into a quicktime, and it ran comparably crappy.
instead of going at 3 frames a second, playing every frame, it dropped the frames in between refreshes.

I also ran into a problem when i tried to export flash to quicktime. At first it had a problem because I didnt have the latest quicktime, but after I fixed that, It said that quicktime does not have the correct handler for this version of flash (2004 pro). I read up on macromedia's site, and it recomended that I make it into a flash 5 movie ??? anyone know why / a work arround?

to get around this I just exported a jpeg sequence and used after-effects.

[FrozenMedia]

Export as an uncompressed AVI from Flash and use your video editing package such as premiere to export as a Quicktime at the desired quality. This will produce an absolutely massive file before you export the quicktime tho :p

Have you tried dropping the resolution of the screens as I'm guessing they won't be looking at the screens too close up?

Rich

[puppy]

Originally posted by slacker
Im trying to think of a situation where that would be called for, and cant come up with one.

Not true. It could be avesome for digital media processing - you could have dosen of files/views in high-res at once - what a speed-up! Me myself has worked a year on Kodak POS, old photo restavration (hard damage recovery, colouring b&w photos, etc), and I had 24" CRT. It was far better for any 19", but hell I wish I could have THIS thing then...