to get a good performance: What to avoid

[oe]

Hi,


I am kind of new to Director, but am already getting performance
problems in my projector where I did not expect it (There only are some
slow tweens. In director itself the movie seems to run smoothly). Could
you please give me the insider-tips what to avoid, I could save much time.
For example: In Flash a tip like this would be "Don't use more than one
tweening including transparency at the same time or it won't run
smooth". May there be the same problem in Director?


thanks for your help and many greetings from munich.

oe

[EdMX]

Perhaps you could give us a hint as to where things are slowing down, i.e. is a
particular point in your movie very slow, and what's taking place on stage at
the time?

'big' fades are the first thing to watch, the bigger an image is on the stage
the more work director has to do, so keep images relatively small, dont have
too many on stage at once and don't move them all about at the time, fading one
image into another is very heavy going for Director. Keeping images to a small
filesize is also important - make sure all images are correctly optimised
outside director to the smallest filesize you can get away with.
You should also optimise all your vector art so it has as few nodes as you
need to describe the graphic you want.

[johnAq]

It should run at least as well in a prohjector as it does in authoring *on the
authoring machine* - performance will vary from machine to machine.

One thing that comes to mind is that in authoring, you're likely to already to
have any images loaded into memory (uless you restart or save), whereas in a
projector they need to load. It will therefore be slow the first time you play
it, but faster afterwards becasue they are now loaded.

Search the forum archives for stuff on 'preloading'

hth

johnAq

[oe]

Thanks for your hints.
It seems that director has problems with fading to transparency. This
also happens with Fonts, that is what conduses me most. I have one
sentence with very big letters, but it is only "50 years". Nevertheless
Director does slow down when fading it to 0%.
It is kind of depresseing, for this was one of the reasons why I bought
director - I thoought it would be much more powerful than Flash.

Well, thanks a lot anyway!




EdMX wrote:

> Perhaps you could give us a hint as to where things are slowing down, i.e. is a
> particular point in your movie very slow, and what's taking place on stage at
> the time?
>
> 'big' fades are the first thing to watch, the bigger an image is on the stage
> the more work director has to do, so keep images relatively small, dont have
> too many on stage at once and don't move them all about at the time, fading one
> image into another is very heavy going for Director. Keeping images to a small
> filesize is also important - make sure all images are correctly optimised
> outside director to the smallest filesize you can get away with.
> You should also optimise all your vector art so it has as few nodes as you
> need to describe the graphic you want.
>