Image fading and CPU

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Sup All!
I’ve heard there are alot of knowledgable flasher’s here.(Flash MX not flash your privates lol!)
So i’ve got a question about image fading.
In my movie i’m fading a prety large image (750x300) and its pinging my CPU at 60% 8-0.
I was wondering if this just comes wih fading a large image or would fading a mask over the image be more efficient?

Here’s the Movie
The background fades every 20 seconds.

And thanks in advance for sharing your know-how :smiley:

[edit]Flash MX 2004 Pro[/edit]

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Fading a mask over the image wouldn’t fade the actual image, I don’t think unless you’re doing it a different way from me

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Well yes i guess it wouldn’t actually fade the image but it would hide it wouldn’t it.
I just don’t want to go through changing stuff if it doesn’t make a differance.
Thanks for the reply :slight_smile:

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No it actually wouldn’t hide it it would still show it no matter what the alpha of it is.

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Ok so you are saying that you cannot fade a mask over an image to hide it and relviel it?
I’m sorry ,I’m not a flash guru but i think you are wrong.
I’ll have to fire my flash up and just try it.
I thought that somebody would have gone through this experience before.
guess I’ll just have to take alook under the hood and fire for effect

thanks anyways :stuck_out_tongue:

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i didnt read your conversation but if the bg is solid black then maybe try fading a black rectangle in over the image…

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If you have a solid color behind the image, NEVER use alpha. It will kill your computer. Use the brightness property for black or white backgrounds, and the “tint” option for other colors.

You can make a mask fade things in and out using less CPU aswell. Just put the mask over the image, and alpha out the image, swap out the picture, and fade the mask back in. There are a million ways to do this.