Revolution

13May07

Approaching the last few days I’ve been steadily plodding along with the same sort of things I’ve been doing for the last few days, namely; fixing bugs (with help from Craig), re-organising my flash timeline structure and fine-tuning the sound and graphics of my project and trying to think of some cool taglines.

I had to have a massive overhaul of my general idea about four days ago which was far from ideal. It turns out, that as useful as cuePoints are, they have their limitations. In previous testing many moons ago I found that cuepoints keep animated symbols in sync for a decent amount of time, so when it came to completing my final invisible animated buttons for the movie file I was using I was horrified to discover that my cuePoints are synced for literally just a few seconds before they become out of sync. Short of having a cuepoint every five seconds it seemed completely implausible to complete the project in the given time. In retrospect I would have made a five minute film, instead of a ten minute one which would have been much easier to handle. I’ve managed to use a series of static buttons in the place of the animated ones, which I am now quite satisfied with and there has been no aesthetic change to my project. Phew.