superfast image preview/shuffle effect needed

[tsujim0]

Hi there.

Can anyone advise me as to the best way to create a CS3 as3 animation that looks like this:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fsEuQ6TZUVc

Just the quick sliding/overlapping image effect, none of the other bits.
I'm thinking of tweaking some motion tweens until it looks right, but does anyone know a better way?

Oh yeah, I'm pretty new to flash. :emb:

Cheers.

[theCodeBot]

It would take forever to load this in flash. I'd make it an animated GIF in Photoshop instead of tweening those countless images at a rate that fast.

If you want it done slowly, then just play with the tweens and hope that it's really worth 15 seconds of load time for a 3 second animation.

[tsujim0]

Right, I see.

I'll have a think about it... cheers for the advice.

[Pier25]

The best way would be to do it in After Effects, and load an flv...

You need tons of pictures, and then you'll need tons of cpu too to blur the pictures and achieve that fluid movement...

So... loading an flv is simply the best way IMO.

[tsujim0]

Cheers. The plot thickens...

Any chance of a bit more detail with your recommendation to get me started...?

Thanks.

[theCodeBot]

Pier25 is right, his solution will be higher quality and easier to make than photoshopping it up.
Load up AfterEffects and... um, well, I never use AfterEffects, I don't remember how to make animations in it :P But make one, save as coolIntro.flv and load that up in flash via the Loader and URLRequest classes.

[tsujim0]

OK, cheers.

Photoshop is too darned clumsy for this, I'll never get the subtlety therein I need to make it look proper good. It's one of those simple looking yet easy to mess up fx that needs an eye for detail, or else it won't look quite right.

I never use afterEffects either :worried: but I know a man who does :grin:.

It's that subtle artistic blur/easing/file size/thousands of reasonable images in a few seconds dilemma that we all face.

Time to learn something new...

Thanks guys!

[bootiteq]

some after effects tips

when you choose Import/file... after you select a image it gives a radio option to load as image sequence. you can then drag your image seq onto the stage as a single layer.

another thing you can do is search the help for "frame blending" and "time stretching"
- essentially with a couple of clicks you can control a. the duration each image appears with (time stretching) and b. how many frames are used to blur one into another (frame blending).

[tsujim0]

Excellent, Cheers for the tips!