Thread: Movie of BufferedImages

Hi guys, I've made a little movie out of BufferedImages and it runs beautifully, however, the problem I'm faced with is loading time.
By loading time, I mean the time it takes to craft this array list of BufferedImages.

By the way, the movie is just an image that fades in and out.

I have pinpointed the problem to be that whenever I create a new BufferedImage, it just takes way too much time for java to allocate that memory.

Here is a code snipit:

private BufferedImage setAlpha(byte alpha) {
    	BufferedImage temp = null;
        alpha %= 0xff; 
 
        try {
	     temp = ImageIO.read(new File("images\\intro.png"));
	} catch (IOException e) {}
 
        for (int cx=112;cx<675;cx++) {          
            for (int cy=8;cy<567;cy++) {
 
            	if(temp != null){
	                int color = temp.getRGB(cx, cy);
	                int mc = (alpha << 24) | 0x00ffffff;
	                int newcolor = color & mc;
	                temp.setRGB(cx, cy, newcolor);  
            	}
 
            }
        }        
        return temp;
    }

temp = ImageIO.read(new File("images\\intro.png")); is the line that takes forever, does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you,

Ludicrous

Hey, thanks for the reply.

After doing research, it turns out ImageIO.read() is just dirt slow, and I might need to find some other way to doing my movie.

Can the image files be read on another thread while other images are being shown?

This is very true, thank you.