What is the best (performance) way to animate 55 png images in Adobe Flash?

Question

We are using Adobe Flash to produce software for an interactive touch screen kiosk. I have 55 1024x768 24 bit PNG images. I want to play them (fairly regularly...once every 5 minutes or so) without them stuttering but can't find a good dependable way, main problem is I think Flash GC's them after an arbitrary idle period. Reason I'm doing this is because the FLV attempts we have made aren't sufficiently high quality. I also looked at using a H.264 but that obscures any other assets placed over it. I have a number of text fields sitting over this animation.

The machine in question is a Core2 Duo, 4GB Ram, GeForce 9500GT.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Personally, I'd do an FLV. I'm not sure where the quality issue would be, but I created a quick test file.

Download: Test File

Download that and let me know what you think.

Here is what I did: 1) Created a new project: 1024 x 768 2) Created the order of the pics in the timeline in separate frame. 3) Exported using QuickTime H.264 4) Converted to the FLV listed above.

Hope this helps.