Re: FLASH: filesize

[Byron Canfield]

As an experiment, you might try making just a small movie, two versions, and

for one of them, import the JPG. For the other, import a BMP or PNG file that

was the basis for the JPG, that is, before any lossy compression was done.

Then

export both to movies using the same JPG settings.


I think what you'll find is that the export will be smaller for those file on

which there was no lossy compression prior to import. It will do no good,

however, to open a JPG and save it as a BMP or PNG and them import that,

because once saved as a JPG, the damage is done -- you have to start with some

original with no loss occurring.


Your FLA file will be larger for the one where you import a BMP or a PNG file

because those files will be larger, so it's also a practical consideration to

keep an eye on the FLA file size to keep it under the magic 5 megabyte ceiling

(after which, SWF export and even editing is "iffy").


At 10:48 AM 1/25/99 +0200, you wrote: 

>

> hi all

>

> I've been working on this flash thingy and i've imported 280K of jpegs. The

> movie is about 120 frames and I have deleted any unused symbols and pretty

> much optimised the file as much as possible. The problem is that the movie

> ends up at about 1.1 meg, which is completely out of the question. It is a

> flashed version of a javascript image replace site. The original site is

> about  300K and flash is supposed to reduce file size. Can any one tell me

> why this file is so big (I think it might be because the jpegs are faded in,

> but I need a second opinion). If you feel like waiting for a 1.1 meg flash

> file, you can view it at:

>

>

> <http://196.33.161.54/default1.asp?Flash=1>http://196.33.161.54/default1.a

> sp?Flash=1

>

> Regards

> Gavin




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Byron Canfield, Canfield Studios (http://www.byronc.com)

President, Seattle Coreldraw Artists Network (http://www.corelsea.org)


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