Create Slow Motion WIth A Timer?

I think WOWZA ( http://www.wowzamedia.com/) has examples of it running
from their server. Not sure if the demo is online, but it comes with the
server install. Developer versions are free. Maybe it'll give you an
idea how.

Manno

eLearningDeveloper wrote:
> seeking clarification - it appears there is no such thing as slow motion with
> FLV, though it can be sort-of emulated using a timer. Is this correct?
>
> Looking at the AS3 specfication for netstream seek(), and the discussion of
> so-called I-frames and P-frames, it would appear that, with the correct
> settings on the server (EnhancedSeek), and video of a certain quality (I-frames
> every 10 frames, with a high fps rate in the FLV) an actual real slow motion
> could be attained.
>
> Are there any experts who know?
>

seeking clarification - it appears there is no such thing as slow motion with FLV, though it can be sort-of emulated using a timer. Is this correct?

Looking at the AS3 specfication for netstream seek(), and the discussion of so-called I-frames and P-frames, it would appear that, with the correct settings on the server (EnhancedSeek), and video of a certain quality (I-frames every 10 frames, with a high fps rate in the FLV) a "real" slow motion of sorts could be attained.

Are there any experts who know?

1. in flash, sprites have no timeline so it makes no sense to talk about a framerate for a sprite.

2. only movieclips have timelines so it only makes sense to talk about the framerate for a movieclip.

Well you just need to make them into MovieClips instead of graphics symbols.

See all my sprites are graphic symbols not Movie clip symbols. It looks like that code is for movie clips. would i be right in assuming that?

Hi kglad. I was the one who gave him the answer. My answer was basically no, but with a bit of nuance. i told him it can be faked using code and then told them that you had answered this within the last week with code example.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=194&threadid=1403434&highlight_key=y&keyword1=fps

And yes this technique will be able to do some nice effects and as kglad said even play something backward, but if you want really beautiful animation you will nee to do what clbeech says: Draw more artwork.

well, there are other methods in animation. if you want to make it super smooth and slow, then you need to add more in-betweens and breakdowns. if you simply slow the timeline playback you'll end up with the same effect as shooting on multiple frames.

Thats what i have done before it just (to me) doesnt look that good. Look at this Movie someone else made youll see the slow motion it looks really good.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/276650

do you think thats what he did?

although this can be done - if you're basically making a 'movie' that is not dynamic or interactive - you could simply add frames between keyframes to slow down the animation, also know as 'shooting on twos' (or three, fours, etc.)

EDIT: LOL kg - sorry, but that's quite interesting

whoever gave that answer was wrong. you can play different movieclips at different rates and even different directions.

search this forum, the as1/as2 forum and the general discussion forum for posts by me using fps in the past week or two.