Madness project dying, looking for collabs

Well good and bad news guys. Bad news is my 6 month project with ~6000 frames, is coming to a stop unfortunately because of intense technical difficulties. (For more details scroll down or PM me, perhaps you can help me). The good news is that because the project has died I now have a bunch of short madness animations, about 7 from the dead madness project, that I have to now compromise and send to collaborations, so that they don't go to waste. So if you got a collaboration then hit me up.

TECHNICAL DETAILS (the problem)
I organized my madness project as separate fla. files to decrease the size so that when working on each scene it wouldn't crash as much, and so that animating each scene wouldn't be so much of a pain. Because after 5 scenes or so, flash just gets really slow. I tried to merge them manually by copying and pasting each scene into one big file, but it would always crash on me due to flash crashing. I tried putting them into separate movieclips too, but that also ended with the same fate. I tried buying some swf merging programs but they always ended with some scenes not properly merging (some had missing characters, backgrounds, effects and etc.). so after a stress filled first 3 days of spring break I'm contemplating compromising and throwing in my towel (metaphorically speaking) and instead of submitting a single solo project, instead I'll just participate in a bunch of collaborations.

If you have any suggestions or any advice in fixing this problem then please PM me. Otherwise I'll be submitting my currently dead madness project to collaborations.

BY THE WAY I noticed the unfortunate post date of this news post, this is NOT a joke. I was just unfortunate enough to post this awful news on April 1st.

EDIT1: Well, I've sort of figured a solution, but this will split the movie into 2 parts. I don't know why but nly 5 scenes have already totaled 150MB on my fla. file and 4,334KB on the raw swf file (without sound or music by the way). I don't know why it was so memory intensive with this madness project.

Madness project dying, looking for collabs

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DriftLV1 2012-04-01 19:46:54

I do the same thing you do, because my computer is crap and any Fla. over 8000 frames, my Flash just crashes. However, when I merge them into the same fla., it loads a whole lot, but it doesn't crash for me. And i've done it with 4 different projects. So I don't really know man, maybe someone with more knowledge can help you.

Also I have flash 8, maybe you have a different one.

GDop26 2012-04-01 19:46:54

I don't understand, how did you do it? Could you please expand a bit.

LittleLuckyLink 2012-04-02 02:35:05

You could just ask someone who has a faster computer to compile the bits and pieces for you.

redghost1313 2012-04-02 06:47:56

from what I know about crashes it is usually one two things-
1) Your computer is too old and cannot handle the program.
-To fix this you have to get a new computer and transfer over the files.
2)There is an error in the coding of your program
-To fix this you have to go into the code, find out what is wrong with it and change it to it's proper form (suggested you get a friend who knows coding well to do this)

other then that I have no idea

liuzirui1122 2012-04-02 09:53:33

You can send the .fla files to a people who has a good computer to help solve the problem like exporting,fixing wrong sprites and so on. Or you can just send them to other collab :3

Luis 2012-04-02 10:08:14

you might have a corrupt symbol(s). Does it always crash at a specific point or is it random.

liuzirui1122 2012-04-03 03:59:45

Normally a flash project which has more than 3500 frames can be 100 MB-size big.

DriftLV1 2012-04-10 15:45:04

I just copy the frames. And I would suggest tweaking the sound quality as that helps ALOT, but you seem to not have sounds, which is very odd, I have no clue.

GabrielBarsch 2012-05-07 14:07:37

please dont give up

GDop26 2012-05-07 14:07:37

I probably should've updated this post, because since I have decided to release it in 2 separate flash movies posted on the same day each with 4 or 5 scenes (because apparently 5 scenes takes up 150mb. So don't worry it'll still come out.

Tr3Yo 2012-06-05 06:08:14

Where is it

MysterMan948 2012-07-09 13:22:46

Hi ! Because im making Madness Collab, im asking You if youll be that good and join it !
Im giving you this request because youre good animator and/or my friend and i want you to be in !
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