Re: [flasher] Re: Importing a PNG Sequence in Flash 5?

[John Dowdell]

At 8:56 PM 3/14/1, Mary Anne Lynch wrote:

> I was unaware of the RAM-only playback. So this is one more reason

> to use Director for CD projects, correct?


If you're planning on projects that have more media than will fit into your

audience's various computers' memory, then a tool which has specific

features for media-management does offer advantages, true.


About the only control over loading you have is to load entire SWFs at a

time, and you'd need to be careful that any simultaneous load does not

exceed your audience's likely memory.


(Pete raised that important point that bitmaps and much of the audio need

to decompress from disk in order to play, and so swell up in RAM... with

the vector curves we're just remembering the instructions and so don't need

to have the computer memorize pixels, but if you've got a lot of bitmaps

then the filesize on disk is only a fraction of the true cost on the

audience's various machines.)


Flash is a great tool, but it isn't *all* tools... it's not a catch-all

media format like other tools are. Please take advantage of Flash's best

strengths!


jd






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