flash time limit?
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- WildPony
I have to create a flash file that will be around an hour in length. It will have pictures, some video and mp3 songs playing throughout. (kinda like those info slideshows you see before a movie starts at the theater)
I'm thinking of doing it at 800x600 at 30fps. Is there a limit to how big or long you should make a flash file?
- dbloc0
never had to make an hour long flash file. that's gonna be huge. I don't think there is a limit though.
- WildPony0
yeah, it will be huge. I have 1.5 gig of ram on a p4 3.0ghz but still i worry...
- ********0
we don't recommend going beyond 3 or 4 megs with your fla.
swf = small web format
sounds like director would be the better choice for this one...
or
pull all the media in from externally with action script and record from your video card.
- gabe0
don't know if this is a possibility for your setup, but maybe it may make things easier to break it all up into segments of different SWFs?
i.e. after 10 min of 1.swf it loads 2.swf, etc
an hour long 800x600 flash movie sounds pretty intense.
- contra0
Can't you load in external files when they're required rather than putting everything into a one hour long timeline? That thing's gonna be huge and may kill any computer it's played on if you do it all in one go.
You might want to look into using attatchMovie() and removeMovieClip() so they're not sat in memory when you've finished with them. I might be wrong though.
- ********0
16000 frames is the maximum amount of frames you can have.
BUT
I'd strongly recommend not pushing it that far if you don't want your fla to become corrupted...
- ********0
no but there is like a 13,000 frame limit for on single application. I've had ones at like 20,000 frame with long pieces of audio to where I had to break them up into two apps.