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1. Ned Murphy,

Jan 13, 2010 9:50 AM in reply to mightypants

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If I understand what you want, and assume the tweens are timeline based, you can change the frame rate, but you'll need to add frames to the tweens and whereever else timeline travel is involved so as to compensate for the faster rate. Meaning... if you have 12 FPS, you need 12 frames for a 1 second duration. If you double that frame rate to 24 FPS, you need to doube the number of frames.

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2. mightypants,

Jan 13, 2010 9:54 AM in reply to Ned Murphy

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Ned,

Thanks for the response. I was hoping there was some kind of automated way to do this so I don't have to go in and add frames between each event, but it sounds like there isn't.

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3. Ned Murphy,

Jan 13, 2010 9:55 AM in reply to mightypants

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None that I know of, but I don't know everything.

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4. Rothrock,

Jan 13, 2010 11:19 AM in reply to mightypants

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Not totally related to your exact question, but....

You said you wanted to smooth out some animations by increasing the frame rate. If you started with the initial default value of 12, then going to some value like 24 or something could possibly make the animations smoother.

However if you started with 30 and you thought that by going to 60 you would improve the animations that is probably not going to happen.

Personally I recommend getting a good rate that works for most projects and then sticking to it. That way you become more familiar with what needs to happen at that rate and you can reuse resources. I used to work at 21 fps most of the time and have since moved to 30.

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5. mightypants,

Jan 13, 2010 11:30 AM in reply to Rothrock

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Thanks for that info. I don't use Flash very often, so I haven't developed any standards yet, and wasn't sure what I'd need for this project. The framerate is 12 fps, so I think a boost could help. Thanks.

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6. Rothrock,

Jan 13, 2010 11:50 AM in reply to mightypants

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If you used the new Motion Tweens they can be stretched making the animation take longer, but then if the framerate increased they would be the same. However you would still need to stretch them.

In theory there could be a JSFL written to do such a thing, but it would be way beyond me.

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7. k.a.r.l.2000,

Oct 15, 2010 1:42 PM in reply to mightypants

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Hi,

This post has a JSFL script and tutorial for stretching an animation in Flash:

http://www.dankrusi.com/page_69653F3334383C3A.html

It's not perfect, but is definitely helpful.

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