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[Karma1]

I have been experiencing extremely slow performance when using SWISHpowerFX. Im using a Dual 3.0 ghz, 2 gb ram and ultra320 scsi interface. This machine is never slow, except for when i use SWISHpowerFX. I have two problems that are keeping me from getting any work done. First, when ever I click to preview all 3 effects, it is ABSURDLY slow to respond. Im talking at least 2 minutes before i see anything. Secondly, whenever i cancel out of SWISH, it makes a series of keyframes and then it takes about 5 minutes for it to write the frames, delete them and close the window. Is there any reasoning behind this? If you can help me in any way with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

[David Petley]

Hi,
your system sounds more than adequate to deal with PowerFX.

I will contact the PowerFX developers and get them to review your post here.

Can you attach a .fla file that exhibits this problem to a post here so that it can be checked.


david p.

[troper]

This seems like a problem a lot of users are reporting. Have the developers found a solution for it? If not, then swishzone should stop distributing the extension and macromedia should reimburse everyone.

[HughB]

Hi,

We're looking into the situation.

If you have a sample FLA that would help.

thanks,

Hugh

[HughB]

A FLA would really help...I need to be able to reproduce what you are seeing.

thanks,

Hugh

[troper]

Hugh,

I would add that I also have textFX, bought it today thinking I could use some effects from it. Though it is not as nice as what I've seen in swishpowerFX I just decided to plunk down the money. Well, I used it a couple of times, without a lot of satisfaction from the results. Out of frustration I thought I'd give swishpower another try. It continues to lock up the system, I can't even save an fla out of it. I shut down flash, started it back up, and then tried to apply textFX. Guess what, after running swishpower now textFX crashes. It was working before running swishpower, so something is definitely up with your product. I don't know that I can be more specific because I can't get to the point to save an fla.

Larry

[HughB]

If you reboot your machine and then run textFX is everything ok?

powerFX does not do anything permanent to your system. I can only think that a task is running within Flash from using powerFX and when you also ran textFX you encountered resource problems.

Could you please display Performance from Task Manager and look at what CPU and memory is being used when:
- before Flash is running
- after starting Flash
- after starting powerFX

Please let me know what happens.

thanks,

Hugh

[Brightbelt]

Hi-
I thought I'd chime in. I'm new to Swish powerFx and Flash Mx04, but I've done a number of text animations with Swish so far. I'm on Win XP Pro, Pent 4, with 2.66 Ghtz processor and 1 GB of ddr Ram. And Swish is sloooooowwww. It works for me but it's very slow. It's only locked up/frozen once and that was with a text animation that had multiple lines of text. As others have said, I'd attach that file, but I couldn't finish it and so I didn't save anything.
Otherwise the product is very first rate. If you want to check out my first successful animation with it, visit http://www.frankbright.com and notice the top, lefthand area of the page ("pianist - composer - publisher" etc). The effects are great - I hope they can find some solution for the slowness. Thanks,...Frank

[danirut]

Hi. I also experience this slowness.

A little clarification for Swish staff... I don't think getting a flash file to look at will matter. You can create the issue easily... the issue is basically related to how large your text field is when you run the swish plugin. If you have 100 characters or more in your text field... it takes Swish forever to load the preview or build the plugin box. Not so, if you run it on a simple word like "Business" but if you run it on an extended sentence... it really is slow. On my machine, eventually Flash brings up a pop-up box telling me that the plugin is taking a long time and do I want to cancel.

[HughB]

Hi,

I suggest you prototype with a small number of charcters and if possible a small number of frames. Once you are happy with the way it looks, retype the string and have it cover the number of frames you require. Processing is
proportional to characters x frames so 4 charcters over 10 frames will take 1/10th the processing time of 20 characters over 20 frames.

Unfortunately there is not a lot we can do as the processing time is a limitiation imposed by the interface supplied by MX 2004. Your PC resources are used by Flash when it does the conversion. The faster the PC and more memory you have the better off you will be.

thanks,

Hugh

[jase4jesus]

Ditto on that slowness. I'm amazed at how slow it is.
I meain, I can understand rendering, but surely swish could come up with some interface that loads quick and does fake preview or somthing. It only needs to do that work once...

[chiapet]

I would like to add to the trail regarding EXTREAM slowness! My system is only slow to repspond when using SWiSHpowerFX. Normally I can run Photoshop CS, Flash MX2004, several instances of Firefox & XM Radio Online without any issues. If I run SWiSHpowerFX...even on its own within Flash MX 2004....I might as well take break.