Re: FLASH: Minimizing Movie Size

[Jefferis]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:15:21 -0400, Dorian Nisinson <

dorianbway [dot] net

> 

wrote:


Dorian, 

could you please explain why this effect works?


I am wondering if I could have benefited from this technique in this 

situation:

I created a ship in Freehand, and it was exported to Flash, but it 

created 32 symbols in the process. I am not sure that what you are 

describing would have reduced the symbols or the size of this major 

graphic...


Jeff


>. If by any chance you are

>talking about the fla size try this: 

>Copy frames and layers of just the vectorized artwork you created in

>Flash.

>open a new movie the same stage size as the original.

>paste frames in the new movie. the size reduction in terms of the Fla

>should be dramatic.

>	If you are talking about file size of the swf, if is a bit more

>complicated. First, I would check each object in each frame with

>Modify/Curves/optimize to see if you were more complex in the tracing

>than you needed to be. After that it is harder to explain.

>

>Dorian



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