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Subject: Re: FLASH: filesize
From: WebFeat: Gavin Frayne
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 06:14:08 GMT

Thanks Mary.
I was aware that vectors make it a whole lot smaller but the jpegs include
photos of people and would be very difficult (if not impossible for me) to
recreate. Could there do something else I'm doing wrong that makes the file
not just large but massive.

Gavin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Brzys <mbrzysatyahoo [dot] com>
To: flasheratshocker [dot] com <flasheratshocker [dot] com>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: filesize


>Hi Gavin,
>
>It sounds like its the jpegs that are making your movie extra large.
>If at all possible, recreate your artwork as vectored artwork in
>Flash. It cuts the size down and besides it will only load once, if
>you use the same symbol (artwork) over and over again.
>
>I did this with an animated 3D spinning globe, which was originally
>all bitmapped (picts;quicktime). It took awhile to recreate it, but in
>the long run it runs better and it looks better.
>
>
>Mary Brzys
>Flash Artist
>
>
>
>
>---"WebFeat: Gavin Frayne" <gavinatwebfeat [dot] co [dot] za> 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
>>
>> Regards
>> Gavin
>>
>>
>>
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