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    motion problem

    Is there anyone that can possible tell me why the movement in the attached file is so choppy. I have tried everything and searched everywhere for a possible solution and cannot for the life of me find one.


    Pleeeeeeeease help


    FYI: i want it to be very slow movement and very small distances. IS this even possible
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    Have you tried changing the frame rate?

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    Many time's.. I have done very different combinations of frame rates and frame amounts. I only want the clouds to move a few pixels in each movement.

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    Are the clouds in a movie or have you drawn them (I was unable to open your file to look).

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    They are in a movie....I changed that a while back but it didn't do much. Sorry about the file format i'm using a PC.


    Here is an i.e.

    http://chewycreation.com/clouds.html
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    I also tried to look at your file but couldn't.

    I'm guessing you saved it as Flash 8, any chance you could resave in MX2004 format?

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    NP, it was in 8.
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    OK, This is down to a bug in Flash,

    Basicly Flash has a real problem tweening bitmap images at slow speeds, it will always result in a nasty vibrating effect.

    I have vector traced all of your images (in other words I have converted them from pixel based images to vectors) and your clouds now move smoothly.

    Just a note: you'd be better off redrawing your clouds directly into flash as the traced ones are very memory intensive and a little rough around the edges.

    Let me know if you have any questions
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    WOW, I can not believe that that was the problem, damn flash. Quick question, everything that I have created is done in Illustrator and I usually bring them into Photoshop and convert them into PNG’s. Is there a way to move them from illustrator to flash conserving the vector aspect?

    Either way you are a life saver. Thank you soo much.

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    sure, don't know about earlier versions of Illustrator but if you're using CS or above just go FILE > EXPORT and then choose macromedia flash as your format. saving as eps will probably work too.

    Remember that Flash is a vector based platform, It can do wonderful things with bitmaps, but it is always happiest with vectors.
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    AI to Flash?

    duh, have u heard of copy/paste?? Matter of fact, that's THE WAY you're supposed to do it. Not convert a perfectly fine vector into an unusable bitmap, only to bring it back to the vector program. I usually get any vectors done in a Photoshop file, paste them into Illustrator, then paste them into Flash. In my experience, you cannot copy/paste paths directly from Pho; you'd have to export, then go thru the Flash/Import deal. MUCH easier to copy/paste twice. BTW, be sure to color the path in AI or into Flash, you'll paste NOTHING!

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