TrickyE 2009-10-25 03:20:34

It is probably just lagging your computer.

NationalAlliance 2009-10-25 03:50:13

CS4 is shit

Shadowii2 2009-10-25 04:50:23

It slows down on me too randomly at times. Sometimes if there's some ActionScript in the movie or the bandwidth profiler option is toggled on, it only shows about half of the movie or the animation doesn't properly match the dimensions it's supposed to be on.

But I just open the SWF file itself after publishing to preview the file and that usually works perfectly.

fluffkomix 2009-10-25 04:50:49

try reinstalling, updating your drivers, or just closing and reopening flash.

i had the same problem in flash 8, and it ticked me off.

molkman 2009-10-25 08:50:45

I have the same problem. The answer is that it simply is CS4. And CS4 is a piece of crap. I also like how certain features simply dont work at all.

AKS9 2009-10-25 09:09:10

something that happens to me in CS3 (I'm not sure about CS4, but it might be the same thing) is that if I playback with the Q tool selected, performance is halved.

So try selecting the normal arrow tool (V) or brush or something before playback. Make sure the Q tool thing isn't selected.

My biggest gripe from the few hours I tried CS4 was that often dring playback random shape-fills you had selected still appear with the selet-dither-dotty-thing! so if I'm watching a short fbf piece playing back, every few random frames it will flash white dots cos some some frame content is still selected. There is no way out of this as far as I can tell other than de-selecting the content of these frames manully each time which is obviously so overly time consuming as to not be worth it at all

Luis 2009-10-25 09:27:21

I didnt know you used flash still?

JoSilver 2009-10-25 11:13:38

well try changing the default framerate and see if it stays when you open a new file

K-Guare 2009-10-25 12:05:23

I always test my movies with CTRL + Enter,
even in CS3 it kinda dicks up when I play it in the timeline.

Tyler 2009-10-25 12:10:19

I always have preview issues in CS4 for some reason.
While this isn't really a fix, and taking into consideration your file isn't too ridiculously large, you could just export to an .swf and do your test with that.

thats what I always do, anyway.

MuyHiram 2009-10-25 14:46:10

why don't you download flash 8, is better.

and sorry i cant help.

10JD 2009-10-25 15:07:59

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What he said

rtil 2009-10-25 15:32:02

make sure the free transform tool isn't selected

sir5000 2009-10-25 16:39:21

Flash CS4 has been famous for having multiple issues when involving animation, whether it be crashing or lagging or just not working the way it should (like in your case).

I suggest you downgrade down to Flash CS3 to prevent problems like this in the future.

Kevin 2009-10-25 17:32:08

Testing the movie like that is a bad way.

Movieclips don't play their animation.

Actions don't work.

Just use Ctrl+Enter.

FrozenFire 2009-10-25 17:38:23

Yeah this happens to me sometimes too if the FPS is higher than 30

I would suggest putting a quick "gotoandplay" on frame one and just preview whatever you are working on with ctrl+enter without watching the entire thing.

I guess it depends really on how you work.

Luis 2009-10-25 19:38:41

thats not really an issue. that existed on all versions of flash. the swf generates a clean optimized version of your movie so that its able to run as you have specified (well to the best of its abilities).

Your idea of a 'preview' is not really a preview at all... you shouldnt use the main timeline to really preview your animation. It will have huge spikes in fluidity depending on how complex the frame is. Its not using any of its optimizing aspects when you are in the work window. You are never going to 'fix' that issue because its not really an issue.

god27dog 2009-10-31 18:09:40

hey dude im also from mexico and i live in veracruz.
props on yor work