Flash frame rate recommendations

programming flash
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Hello friends,

I need a big time help from you all…

I want to know from everyone by their information —

“What is the best/safe frame rate for a flash presentation (swf) running on the web as per standards”

Note:

  1. it is mostly not interactive in nature… like most games or interactive flash sites are.
  2. contains mainly time line based animations… static in general.
  3. uses hand drawn vectors more than bitmaps.
  4. external discussion urls are also appreciated.

Thanks …
sparkdemon

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I always create mine at 30fps, which is a perfect speed for animation to look fluid.

But that is personal choice, I’m not sure what the standard is because sometimes a flash animation will run slow at this frame rate if the page is filled with the usual amount of oppressive adverts.

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from 21 up to 30 you shouldnt have a problem and thing will run very smoothly now if you go 80 or higher things can slow down …

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The framerate setting is more or less a cap, or upper limit.
Actual framerate is determined by the client computer.

For example,
If you spec a framerate of 60fps for enter frame events, the actual client-side performance will vary considerably, depending on the hardware involved.
Alternately, if you spec 12fps for enter frame events, performance will be far more consistent across a wide range of client systems.

Generally speaking, the role of “framerate” with regard to movies, videogames, Flash, etc… as it relates to human perception and proper hardware interface, is very poorly understood.
ie: DVD playback at 30fps is visually smooth, but that does not mean that an interactive videogame will also be visually smooth at 30fps.
They are different concepts that appear to be more similar than they actually are.

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I generally do 24 for websites, I’ve found it’s a good mix between performance and smoothness (in AS2, I’d probably do 30 or maybe higher in AS3). But the websites I work on are generally visually complex.

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Note:

  1. it is mostly not interactive in nature… like most games or interactive flash sites are.
  2. contains mainly time line based animations… static in general.
  3. uses hand drawn vectors more than bitmaps.
  4. external discussion urls are also appreciated.
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Yeah, we saw your notes in the first post…

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my advice is to search the forum this topic comes up at least once a month and you always get ranges from 20 all the way to 90 so search around and find out

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thanks…
and by the way… what about the default setting of flash - 12 fps ?

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It’s the default setting because it’s the best compromise for web-based animations. Read the following:
http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/05/frame-rates-in-flash-player.html
and then apply the lowest frame rate that produces acceptable results.

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Thanks friend… thats the kind of links i was looking forward to…

[quote=glosrfc;2343040]It’s the default setting because it’s the best compromise for web-based animations. Read the following:
http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/05/frame-rates-in-flash-player.html
and then apply the lowest frame rate that produces acceptable results.[/quote]

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Thank you so much every one for participating in this worthwhile discussion