Speed of animations

[krissel]

Highmac mentions in this thread, referring to the birthday banner, that it moves too fast for him to read on his iMac.

I know animations do tend to move faster on speedier processors but that leads me to question just how much difference there might be among various systems (9 or X), video cards, internet connection type, etc.

As most of you know, when you make an animation you assign a certain amount of time in seconds or parts of a second for each frame. In the birthday banner the initial frame is .5 second, then the fuse frames are mostly .1 second, the next to last two text frames .5 and the final text frame is set for 2.5 seconds. Total time is between 5-6 seconds for me on the internet but nearly 9 seconds when run within ImageReady on my machine (9600/G4 700mhz, 32MB MacED Radeon, OS 9.1).

How does it run on your machine?
Can you read it OK? Too fast/slow?
And what processor, video card, etc. do you have?

[Highmac]

Just to fill in the gaps.... iMac DV-SE (graphite), 640MB Ram - otherwise standard, OS9.1, dial-up usually connects around 46kps (sp?).

[pendragon]

From fuse lighting to full display is ~ 3.5 seconds on a DP 800, 1.25 GB RAM, Safari 1.0(v85), Comcast Cable.

BTW, Is it really true that Inspector Clouseau's screen name is Bernie?

Harv

[Paul.Tait]

5 seconds (from fuse lighting to full display).

G4 800MHz, 768 MB, 9.2.2.

[Paul.Tait]

Sorry forgot    2 channel ISDN connection.

[jb]

As usual, Grrreat Banner!

- From fuse lighting to Greetings, ~2.8 secs.
- Greetings stays on for ~2.5 secs.

4400, L2/G3/350(320)/1M,
144MB RAM,
ATI Rage Pro 16MB card,
Cable Modem,
OS 9.0.4.

jb

[Diana]

Hi Krissel,

Using a system clock on the Linux desktop that shows seconds.

Desktop - 1 GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird, 512 Megs RAM
Linux, Mozilla 1.5/Konqueror 3.1-13
Dial-up modem 49.2kbps currently.

Desktop - Dual 1 GHz PPC 512 Megs RAM
OS X.2.6.3, Safari

Laptop - 1.5 Pentium 4, 512 Megs RAM
WinXP, IE 6/Firebird 0.6
same dial-up.

WinXP machine is actually a gateway so the laptop and the two desktops are connected through the same modem.

All five browsers open and running at the same time produce a very interesting result to me..

The animation is approximately 4 to 4.5 seconds long in total length, with good timing of presentation throughout in all five browsers. I can't tell any difference at all, nada. The timing is pleasant and not a bother to me. I figured there would be a difference given the info already provided by others. I suppose that all three of my machines have similar CPU/RAM configs so this would explain the similarity of presentation.

To flesh this out, I kicked Hubby off his computer and ran the browser.
Laptop 2.4Ghz Pentium 4, 512 Megs RAM
WinXP, IE-6
dialup connection on his own line, no sharing, connects about 28.8 to 32.6.(never faster) The animation is still the same..no difference.

see ya

[beacher]

4 seconds, start to finish. . .cbl modem, 733 G4, using Safari w/Jaguar.

[Paul.Tait]

Hold everything! Having quit Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator etc. etc. it's now down to 2.5 seconds. Having seen the other times posted, I was about to start a new topic 'Why is my Mac so slooowwwww'? Now I know why.  

[ljocampo]

I clocked it at just under 4 seconds using  533MHz G4 Digital Audio / 1.5GB RAM / OS X 10.2.6 / 9000 Radeon Pro / Adelphia Cable 1.5Mbps / and Sarfari (v85).

Seems to be just right for me.    

[Bill]

Looks and the speed is just fine krissel.
Bet it took you more than a few minutes too put that nice piece of work together.

[Gary S]

About 3 seconds......G4933-OS10.26......Cable modem at aroung 800bps.

i like the banner Kris!

[kps]

3.5sec according to my trusty stopwatch on a 350MHz G4 Sawtooth 768MB RAM, Safari,   ADSL connection.

Great banner, BTW.

[RHPConsult]

Ms. K:

Back home again. Failed to make an accurate measure earlier today of Pismo/10.2.6, on NS 7.1 dial-up to Santa Barbara.

Howsomever, with the same box at home on DSL (using a "cerebral" stopwatch) + NS 7.1

• fuse lit to explosion = 2.5 secs
• greeting display = 2.0 secs

Switching to Safari 1.0 (v 85), the on ly change noted is in the "greeting" which is a tad longer than int NS, now 3 secs, i.e. some more prolonged than the fuse et al.

Not too fast; not too slow! Juuuust right!

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[Highmac]

Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice....

Didn't get on the Mac last night but it's now 7.45am Fri (UK) and banner space is coming up with a little red button with a white cross.
When I started up it was doing the same as yesterday morning. The fuse ran, then the explosion AND the greeting (now knowing what I was looking for helped) in an unmeasurable fraction of a second, then back to the fuse. Hit refresh and now I'm getting only the not-found button. The only other programs I'm running are launcher and remote access status.
The office PC, running IE 5.5, was also running QuarkXPress 3.3 for Windows and Lotus Notes. Could Paul have a point about other programs slowing it down? (Not being a techie, I may be talking garbage here, so I'm open to being corrected).
PS: just noticed Diana's avatar is not being found either, so maybe some of my preferences are corrupted.... but which ones