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Reduce File Size We can use .fla file but size of the file is heavy, how to reduce .fla file size.




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Posted on: May 31, 2005, 21:54


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Hi,
My movie: http://www.OPRNY.com/Flash/Promo2.html loads very slowly since it is over 12000 KB.

This movie: http://www.StreetFlyers.com loads much quicker since it is only about 1200 KB.

My movie has more tweens and graphics, etc. - how can I make the file size smaller?

Thank you,
Dan

PianoManBillyJoel@yahoo.com

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am i being wasteful / could i reuse items to save space. 46k just seems quite a lot!

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One thing about these flash files is that each one contains about 100 JPG Images. Hence, I tried to reduce the JPG Quality to 90% in the Publishing Setting and the resulting size was about 600KB! I would stick with this but I need the JPG Quality at 100%. Is there any program, or method that can be used to achieve a file size of >1MB?

On the side note, I would like to make this project streamable but I do not know of any program that would achieve this. If you know any, just post it here

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Could someone help me and try to reduce the filesize?

I have the .fla located in a zip file at:
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I hope someone can help me as my site just went Live and I don't want to shun anyone away
If you fix it or find a problem (and fix it) email the fixed file to corway@rogers.com or jonas@joystickadventures.com

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<frame name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize src="top.htm" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="NO" >

<frameset cols="276,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0" rows="*">
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I found this method by fluke actually, but the results amazed me that I had to share, with this great site.

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