Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P18: Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available-allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better | OPTIMIZING AND PUBLISHING FLASH MOVIE S Figure 15-14. We start by drawing a shape containing a lot of vector points. 3. Copy your shape to the clipboard. Select each of the remaining three key frames in layer 1 and select Edit Paste in Place. 4. Select the shape in frame 2 and select Modify Shape Advanced Smooth. The new Advanced Smooth dialog box shown in Figure 15-15 opens and not a lot seems to happen. Make sure the Preview check box is selected set the Smoothing strength to 100 and scrub across the Smooth angle below hot text. Note the changes to the object when you change the value to one greater than 90 degrees. Figure 15-15. The new Advanced Smooth dialog box 779 CHAPTER 15 5. Select the shape in frame 3 and select Modify Shape Advanced Straighten to open the Advanced Straighten dialog box. Scrub across the Straighten strength hot text and the curves will start to come to attention as you increase the value. 6. Select the shape in frame 4 and select Modify Shape Optimize. This time you are presented with the Optimize Curves dialog box. Select Show totals message and Preview. Move the slider all the way to the top and click ok. The dialog box will close and be replaced by an alert box telling you how many curves were found how many were optimized and the size of the reduction as a result of the optimization see Figure 15-16 . Figure 15-16. Using shape optimization 7. Test the movie. The graph shows you the file size of the content in each frame and the effect that modifying the shape has in each frame. As you can see in Figure 15-17 the results are quite dramatic. 780 OPTIMIZING AND PUBLISHING FLASH MOVIE S Figure 15-17. Smoothing straightening and optimizing curves can have a profound effect on download times. You are most likely looking at the graph and thinking Wow I am going to start optimizing all of my vector shapes Not so fast. Each of the three methods presented did a good thing and a bad thing. They did indeed .
