Re: FLASH: New Flash cartoon to check

[John Croteau]

Hi Brian,


> I'd like whoever has the time to check this cartoon and see if there are

> any

> errors that standout to you that could have made the cartoon more

> efficient or a smaller file size.  I took the sound as far down as I

> could (16bit mp3 compression) before it sounded nasty.  Everything looks

> and moves the way I'd like it to.  But I wonder if someone might have

> some tricks for something like this that I could try for next time.

> http://www.web-host.net/~bmays/turnabout.html


For almost every presentation that is 600K there is almost always ways to

reduce it.

The first question is how much of that animation is sound?

Without looking at the report and FLA it would be just guessing at how

efficient you were at drawing, optimizing and using symbols in this

presentation.


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