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"Making a Fireworks Movie?"

I've always wanted to make animated movies, but I found Flash too annoying, but I find Fireworks a lot easier to use, so should I use that to make a movie? It has the handly clone feature, so you can just move the part you want, not having to make the entire picture again. I hear it's quite difficult. Any advance on that? Also, how long should each frame last for? I would think that each frame should last for 1-3/100 of a second, but I just want to be sure. Any of you ever made a movie before?

Thanks in advance,
Shaun.

I've always wanted to make animated movies, but I found Flash too annoying, but I find Fireworks a lot easier to use, so should I use that to make a movie? It has the handly clone feature, so you can just move the part you want, not having to make the entire picture again. I hear it's quite difficult. Any advance on that? Also, how long should each frame last for? I would think that each frame should last for 1-3/100 of a second, but I just want to be sure. Any of you ever made a movie before?

Thanks in advance,
Shaun.

make a film? um, the file could be quite big at the end, Flash is great when you get used to it, but....not everyone has the flash plugin so a .gif film could be ok, just try and keep it short :)

Erm, you do realise that you're going to run out of memory after about 20 frames, don't you? I mean, proper movie editing packages require gigabytes of RAM, and let's just say that Fireworks isn't all that conservative.

I think he should at least try it, if it doesn't work, what the heck, you can import the images elsewhere, also i'd like to see the result, could be intresting, although i'm sticking with flash, v nice, lots more you can do with it.

But how the hell do I got about actually animating the damn thing?

The only way you can animate in Fireworks is frame-by-frame.

Gabbo wrote:
> The only way you can animate in Fireworks is frame-by-frame.

I know. In 15 minutes, I've done 23 frames.

well, you can change the speed n stuff, it's kinda like flash, but the compression isn't as good + no sound :(

And how big is the movie so far?

Gabbo wrote:
> And how big is the movie so far?

27 frames = 12.0KB - 1.79 seconds

Not bad, I must say.

270 frames = 120KB - 17.9 seconds

2700 frames = 1.2MB - 179 seconds (2:59)

Not bad at all, considering Grix's rate with his little promo thingy. I think more people will download it.