FLASH: Flash bitmap overhead question...

[J. Lutes (pixelTwiddler)]

Group,


I have recently had someone send me a question that I couldn't answer (or

at least fake an answer to <grin>).


Here it is as I cut it from my e-mail:


	  1.  I have imported about 1.2megs worth of jpgs into a symbol.

After export

	the swf is approx. 6.6megs.  What is going on here?  I have played

with the compression

	in Flash and played with compression of the images before they go

into Flash and jpg

	is as small as I can get them.  What is Flash doing to generate such

a large file?

	Is there something I am missing?  There is nothing else in this swf,

just those images.

	The symbol is a Movie Clip and the swf is being called by another

swf.



I asked him for a few more details about his project, but I am waiting to

find those out.  Does anyone know what causes this size disparity?


Thanks.



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J A S O N   L U T E S

ICQ: pixelTwiddler (#18046724)

E-mail:

jasongrafikimagism [dot] com

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