Digital Workshop

Hi folks,
I have a presentation which zooms from sattelite level to building level, similar to Match of the Day when it zooms to a stadium. I have this working but a problem I have is that when I first run the program, the time it takes to load the images interupts the smoothness.

There are over 170 images in a multiframe each approx 150 kb and collectively 20mb. They are set to run automatically and 0.050 sec in between each image. In my settings I have reduced the quality when publishing to 20% which is still fine.

If I run the sequence more than once without exiting the program then subsequent runs on the multiframe are brilliant and as expected.

I have tried to load the pictures on page load but I still have this problem.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Morning Syn,

Use a standard group of frames instead of MF. This way all the images are displayed at start-up and you can write a loop that hides them in turn eliminating the delay.

Mack

P.S you can drag the frames from you MF into a standard frame rather than creating them anew.

Syn,

Why not use Opus 'Slideshow' object? If you turn-off its autostart, you will control it via actions.

It's easy to add many files at once --- when you browse to one pic file, just select All and hit Okay. Similarly in Opus dialogue can select all to change timing.

Sequence is probably by name.

Thanks for the idea Mack. I will try this over the weekend.

As for the slideshow object, I will look further.
Thanks for your input guys.