# The movie doesn´t play smooth **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [June 18, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759 "2008-06-18T23:26:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ozz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@ozz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ozz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/1 "2008-06-18T23:26:22Z")
Hi everyone! I`ve got a flash site which doesnt play smooth´! The site is not that heavy and I´ve tried not having many gradients and shape twinings.::!!! and still is not smooth… At first the animation is ok but then it turns very slow!!! [http://www.tuquequecreativo.com/beroca/home.html](http://www.tuquequecreativo.com/beroca/home.html) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![sepu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sepu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sepu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/2 "2008-06-18T23:49:16Z")
are u loading stuff externally ? check for loops, the onEnterFrame … how heavy your images are ? what frame rate are u using? etc etc … it can be sooo many thing … ---
**Author:** ![snickelfritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@snickelfritz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snickelfritz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/3 "2008-06-18T23:59:33Z")
The site runs in slow motion here. Nice looking site BTW. ---
**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/4 "2008-06-19T08:40:54Z")
remove those bubbles in the background, increase the frame rate:P yup onenterframe crazyiness ---
**Author:** ![ozz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@ozz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ozz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/5 "2008-06-19T13:31:51Z")
thanks very much guy, I am just loading one movie clip externally…and just using a few images…in fact the file size is just 169 k…is not that much…I am using 48 fps, actually I tried increasing to 64 and nothing…is the same. ---
**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/6 "2008-06-19T13:41:37Z")
humans can’t pecieve anything beyond 30fps or something like that it must be a processing thing, go through disabling stuff then add it one by one, to find what it is ---
**Author:** ![ozz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@ozz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ozz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/7 "2008-06-19T13:58:28Z")
Cheers mate! I`ll try that ---
**Author:** ![ozz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@ozz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ozz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/8 "2008-06-19T14:05:50Z")
I ma using a lot of masking…do you think that it would be the problem? ---
**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/9 "2008-06-19T14:31:18Z")
masking can be iffy, although as said some onenterframe stuff might be going on. ---
**Author:** ![snickelfritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@snickelfritz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snickelfritz)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-movie-doesn-t-play-smooth/263759/10 "2008-06-19T15:56:23Z")
[QUOTE=randomagain;2345585]humans can’t pecieve anything beyond 30fps or something like that[/QUOTE] Precompiled video at a constant 30fps appears seamless on a 60hz television.(1:2 frame/refresh) Interactive computer animations have their own separate set of issues that do not conform to this axiom. Tournament videogame players will back me up on this point; 60hz systems are not fast enough to be competitive, and a 30hz system is virtually _unplayable_. Flash framerate setting is just a ceiling or “cap”; the actual framerate may vary considerably below this setting, depending on the system running it. Here’s a file that demonstrates the effect of various framerate settings in Flash. [[COLOR=“Blue”]http://www.byrographics.com/AS3/frame\_rate/frame\_rate.html[/COLOR]](http://www.byrographics.com/AS3/frame_rate/frame_rate.html) Setting the Flash framerate cap to a number that is a realistic _minimum_ framerate is probably the key to consistency. The example in this thread of “48fps” probably _never_ actually occurs. I’ll bet that file is running at less than 10fps on the vast majority of systems, evidenced by the “bullet time” page loading. The multiple layers of scrolling background bitmaps are probably the reason the site is so sluggish. I think I would completely remove this element and test the site to see if it runs faster. I would also set the framerate to a more realistic value.