Flash CS4 for Mac is slow as fudge?
Some stuff is as fast as before, like scrubbing and playing and applying a tween.
But other, simple stuff, like selecting frames, adding frames - regular or key - takes 2-5 seconds each. Really anything with the timeline is slow. This happens especially with long movies (1.5 minutes - 2500 frames). Which shouldn't matter. I had movies 5 minutes long working fine.
Anyone else experience this yet?
Flash CS4 a complete bust
Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents for anyone thinking about upgrading from CS3, Id SERIOUSLY advise you not to. If you are on any type of time constraint
this is one to stay away from. It has some cool new features but they are not worth the trade off unless you want to work slower than working in CS3.
I ended loosing a client because of how slow the project was taking because of the "Spinning wheel" I kept getting and I had to start another project over in CS3.
I even tried the latest update. I really just dont have time to "try" different solutions when the work needs to get done. I am using a Mac Dual 2.0 G5 with 5 gigs of ram, which I would assume should be able to handle it.
Ill be sticking with CS3 from now on no matter what. BTW adobe, an update isnt supposed to slow you down guys. Better luck next version.
Flash CS4, or CS3, or 5, er 8, er MX, er...
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debofly
Yeah I just made the change from PC to Mac about 2 months ago and did a platform change and upgraded to CS4 and it is slow as christmas on to much. But Im hanging in there since I'm sure it will be resolved.
Haven't tried CS4 myself and don't plan to after what i've read.
What galls me is this. Adobe (and some other companies) have created whole industries around these applications: Flash, AE, PS, Premiere, Word, etc. etc. Every year or so, they release a "new" version with one or two new features that they actually thought of years ago but deliberately withheld so they'd have an excuse to release future versions ad infinitum (i.e. to milk everybody for more cash). Pretty soon we'll be running Flash XS 9 (really ver. 23) and Photoshop XS9 (really ver. 41). It's absurd. Like many things including people, software peaks, then starts to decline. Obviously CS4 is past that point.
I'm still using Flash 5, which as we all know was the big jump (from v. 4). I've tried MX, 8, CS3. Yah, they have a few goodies, but man, is Flash 5 ever fast on a newer machine. And i do mean faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast!! Have fun with CS4 though.
10.0.2 updater - lots of performance updates
Make sure that you use the CS4 updater - there have been a ton of performance issues fixed:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html
List of bugs fixed here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/rgalvan/2009/...available.html