Please help!!!! fps lagging!

[kinduecker]

   Hello!

   I'm a complete newbie to adobe animate, so I'm sorry if the answer is really obvious.

   When I play my animation, the frame rate goes from 24 to around 17, then back up to 24. It does fine for a few seconds, then starts doing worse. One time, it went down to 7 fps for a few seconds, and didn't go back for the remaining duration of the animation. This has been going on for days and it's incredibly stressful! It's practically impossible to work with when 9/10 times it doesn't play at the correct speed.

   I use Microsoft Surface Pro for my animations, and it is completely up to date. (I got it in late September)

   It began having this issue when I accidentally clicked one of my previous projects instead of 'file'. Before that, it would play just fine.

   Please help!!

[RandomlyFish]

If you're testing the animation by pressing enter/pressing the play button on the timeline, you can make it play faster by going to View > Preview mode > Fast.

If you're testing the animation by pressing Ctrl + Enter and you're using Actionscript, you can right click on the preview, click quality and set it to low.

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

If you have sound in your animation and you're using ActionScript 3, you can set the sound sync to Stream in the Properties panel. That will make the animation skip frames to keep up.

If you are doing HTML5 Canvas there isn't Stream sync, but you can get the same effect with code. See my answer here:

audio and animation synchronization issue in animate cc

If the animation is just going to be exported as video, or shown locally, you ought to use ActionScript 3, the sync issue will be solved, and it will perform a lot better.

[kinduecker]

Thank you so much! Syncing the audio with the animation worked perfectly!