Optimizing Adobe Flash 9

[wendyjazz]

Hello,

I have been using Adobe Flash 9 for a few days now and i'm relatively new to Flash. I'm doing this animation scene which is supposed to play along with some videos that i have taken.

*Now here is my problem*
While animating i keep going back and forth to check the animation and it does not give me real time visual i mean its too slow even when i render a scene (Ctrl+Enter) it is rather slow. i would like to know if there is a way to alloting ram or any kind of virtual memory to flash so that i can get real time or near real time viewing. Adobe After Effects and Premiere allow you this feature but i don't think i have come across it with Flash.

Does anyone know how to optimize it?? I have a Presario V2000 which has a celeron processor and 750 MB ram, also 128 mb dedicated graphics memory.

is there any way that i can get better performance or is it just that my laptop is slow and this is the optimum performance i can get, also if ther are any kind of settings that anyone knows of please share.

Thanks a lot and waiting for replies

Wendy.

[Sgaspar11]

Interesting! Well, how big is your flash file? How long is the animation?

I personally haven't had this problem, but if you can run AfterEffects OK on your laptop flash shouldn't have a problem like this either...

[wendyjazz]

No no i dont run after effects on my laptop it will crash... boom...bang..... thats from another computer totally that too at work this is just a home project. the animation is around 1000 frames with lots of stock pictures and stuff like that so it is darn heavy it moves so slow i can go get my self a burger and it will still be running

[Sgaspar11]

Ouch, it sounds mostly like it's the laptop then. With a lot of pictures and stuff like that, if the file size is huge it'll definately bog down your computer and take a long time to compile everything.

As for allotting RAM to flash, I have no clue - I've never had to worry about it luckily.

How do you do it with AfterEffects? Then Ill brose flash to see if I can find it.

Cheers,

Scott

[wendyjazz]

Well its in preferences and then i there are few more clicks till i reach cache thats where i can assign it

[Sgaspar11]

Mm nope nothing like that in flash from what I can find or google...:-)

[wendyjazz]

Yup i know i tried googling too, no luck
since im kinda new here can you please explain what "Rep Altering Power" means??

[Sgaspar11]

Sure, although I am not sure it is really used for much right now. :-)

Basically if you feel that someone has helped you out and you've gained some knowledge from their help you can click the scale icon to increase their power. (what power, I have no clue)

Cheers,

Scott