Macintosh Flash Quality

[BrandonHajile]

Hello, I'm glad I found one Macintosh friendly place on the web that deals with Flash. I have a few questions to ask if you could help me out with them.

I watch Flash movies quite often and I have some SWF files on my Macintosh. The problem is, unless I reduce the quality to "Low Quality", they refuse to play at a decent speed. When it's in Low Quality, the movie's end up looking very jagged instead of smooth. It's very annoying that my movie's have to be in Low Quality in order for them to even move at a good rate. What can I do to speed up the movie so it doesn't have to play at Low Quality all the time? I really don't know anything about Flash, all I know is that it's very ugly in Low Quality mode but I don't have a choice since High Quality makes the movie too slugish to enjoy.

Thanks in advance for the information.

[Adixx]

Generally speaking your flash movies will perform slower on a Mac than on a PC. Increasing your frame rate from the default 12 fps will help. I publish my movies between 18 - 24 fps.

[BrandonHajile]

If a low frame rate is in fact what's causing my Flash movies to be slow, how can I increase it? Is there some kind of option for this on Macintosh, or software that does it?

[SJT]

Changing the framerate is only something the author of a flash movie can do.

[BrandonHajile]

Do any other Macintosh users here have the problem I do? That is, having to lower the quality of the flash in order for it to perform at a decent speed?

[SJT]

Click the first link in my signature, or look at the 1st post in this forum.

[Mac8myPC]

i don't remember the link, but i do remember seeing those videos of the new version of flash for the mac.. i think it was a conference from japan

they showed massive improvements in the flash player for os x.

it's coming, pretty soon all the pc weenies will be wining because flash runs better on the mac

*hopes and prays*

[Adixx]

Originally posted by Mac8myPC
they showed massive improvements in the flash player for os x.

I'll be blown away if it's true...

although is it OS related or a platform issue?

[dwilliams3]

I publish my movies between 18 - 24 fps.

I take it to 120fps
Do you think there is any down side?

[Adixx]

Originally posted by dwilliams3
I take it to 120fps

wow, your a speed addict!

There sure is a down side to it because increasing fps makes the movie more demanding on the processor. Meaning older machines might not play it right. Besides synchronizing your animations at that speed might be a task on its own

If your flash movie is to be played online it's even more critical as opposed to being played as a stand alone projector.

[dwilliams3]

Crap,
how does my web page run on your's
www.davidmw.tk
expecialy lizard man

[Adixx]

what your games? fine here. G4 1.25GHz powerbook.

clay shooter game too tough for me

[Mac8myPC]

here's a link to the movies from the conference in japan

http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000146.html

supah fast frame rates, alpha channel video... pretty cool stuff.

[Adixx]

pretty neat stuff.

[dwilliams3]

what your games? fine here. G4 1.25GHz powerbook.

clay shooter game too tough for m

Hey thanks for testing my games. What my web page is doing is loading them up from another domain and on my Mac only Safari will load up the games.

[Adixx]

You're welcome. I tried loading your games on IE 5 and no luck.
If I find anything I will post back here.

[dwilliams3]

Yea it seems to only work on mac's safari

[dwilliams3]

Ok I think i fixed my web page, I got a new free web host and everything.
www.davidmw.tk

[Adixx]

I just tested your website on IE 5 and Netscape 7.2 and the games don't load. It must be something in the path they don't like.

On safari they load with no problem.

[SJT]

It's more likely that if you're loading from different domains you need to put a crossdomain.xml policy file on the root of the server the user connects to.

look up crossdomain on the macromedia site.