you know... besides it crashing...
I've been using flash for about 8 years now, and each new version has shared the same exact problem and Its probably by far one of the most annoying for me.
say you have loads of scenes in a flash movie (about 100 or so) and you want to select a scene in the middle, so you scroll down there and select your scene... but then the menu skips right back to the top again. It really annoys me because if I'm going through scenes I have to keep doing that over and over again for each scene.
I know you could easily combat that by just selecting play all frames in the control menu and pressing the "." button to go to the next scene but I just wish the scene selection wouldn’t skip right to the top of the list each time I select a scene right at the bottom :C.
if theres a solution to this and you know it, you would be awsome. c:
Hehe yes I know how you feeling. Flash MX 6 is one of the best versions I have used throughout ( lol this word took me some time to find, how to spell
) all of my Flashing years. I am often shocked to see how crappy my working method was, when opening an old file. 50 layers, 50 scenes, 500 symbols and no way to edit any scene without going to have to clean the entire scene through. BUT... I learned from that.
Today I am splitting my scenes into individual files, and making backup ALL the time, different places: my ipod, usb keys, external drive, 3-4 places on my harddrives, laptop and even upload it to my webpage sometimes. There is nothing worse than a corrupt FLA of a file, that took ages to create.
About scenes: yes I know that bug that came at Flash 8+. In MX 6, it was fine, but I have stopped using scenes, because it screws up the sounds completely, and there is no way to fix it, unless you want to put every sound on individual layer, into an individual movie clip. Today I am using methods described in this brilliant book
http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Flash-Cartoon-Animation-Jones/dp/1590599128/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239634607&sr=8-1To make the long story short: if you want to make a scene that lasts 1-5 mins, I recommend using individual files for that. That way it opens faster, performs faster while working on it, saves faster, and IF something should happen to it, it's better to lose that one file, than to lose an entire movie, and again, I can't stress this enough but
BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP - those are my golden words. My BACKUP workflow is: I save my file first at the location 1 (eg. C:/), then 2 (eg. d:/), then 3, and then I repeat, because if I need to come back to the file that is relative older than others, I still have it. And then when I have made alot of work, I take backup on my USB-key, which I am having with me always, and I love my precious, because I know if whole my living place should burn down to ashes, I still have my lifes work.
- Have 1 main scene.
- Make 1 layer for info labels (eg. "dude behind running", "chick side standing").
- Make 1 layer for Animatic, so when entire animatic is done, you take the shape on animatic part 1, convert to new symbol, make new layer and start making the clean version of it. I start very rough drawings, then in stead of deleting it, I lock it, make a line view of it, and make a prettier, and prettier, until it's ready to be drawn finally-clean and colored.
- Make 3 layers for Audio (and put them into Audio folder to hide/show): SFX1, SFX2 (2 for if you want to combine 2 sounds and make them overlap) and Music layer.
- Sometimes I make another folder named Comp, for compilations of objects, that I need to use later: backgrounds, sketches, characters, etc.
Whoa "to make long story short" - this is already a long story. Oh well - I hope, someone can use my advice
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