frame rate

I took a look at www.u2advanced.com and realised that its VERY fast. Is it because of a high frame rate?? Just a yes/no answer will do

Yep

High framerate = smoother graphics or faster

Ummm... That link doesn't actually work... but maybe you meant 2advanced.com...? Well anyway - Yes a higher framerate means .... faster playback. Smoother too. As you approach 25-30 you can't tell the difference. As far as I know, most 2advanced stuff is done at this framerate. Some sites use faster, for no particular reason.

Sirkent... didn't I just say the same thing??? :wink:

Yes, but I expanded on it just slightly for no particular reason [:P]

ok thnx. and yeah; i meant www.2advanced.com

the lines were really moving here and there so quickly.. does high frame rate mean bigger file sizes?

Not necessarilly... File Size usually is just the size of the coding, the tweening, and the objects that you used in the movie. On Much Larger sites than sometimes it does make minor differences in size. For Example in a standard site there will be no change, but in a site with video changes can be seen.. I haven't figured this one out just yet though...

Ok, What Kulegamr is trying to say:

Higher frame rate makes no difference whatsoever. Flash treats everything as coding when you publish it. So a tween from one frame to another is the same whether it's 5 frames or 50 - Flash actually animates it on the spot (doesn't save it frame by frame) and so the file size is the same.
Video of course... Is as big as you make it... the more frames, the more images per second, so yeah, the bigger.

Hrmm... True. Makes since since Flash is supposed to be vector based ( uses math formualae and calculation ) except for video which is frame by frame... What about shape tweening? Does frame rate have any effect on it?

Hey Thanks Sirkent! Yep... thats what I was trying to spit out...

A higher frame rate just means shape tweening is faster... That's all. File size is not affected.

Thanks for your replies! I'm using a higher frame rate for my projects now... I wonder why Flash's default frames per second is 12! Its just too slooowwww! Thanks sirkent! U made everything kulegamr says make 'since'.

Yeah, Sirkent is my official Translator now !!! :wink: Ohh, and 12 really isn't slow, it just has to do with what your doing... its not very smoothe at a framerate of 12 but speed is more dependant on how many frames you have in the movie over framerate. For example...

If I have a circle going from the left side of the screen to the right side and the movie is 6 frames long and it is at a framerate of 12 FPS it will be pretty fast...

If I have that same circle do the same thing in 100 frames at 50 FPS... that is pretty slow. So speed really has to do with both frame rate and the amount of frames. Not just one or the other.