Flash :: Movie Size Too Large

Flash Movie File Size Rather Large?
just created my first flash movie, but it is 25 mins long and is 264mb in size!

is this normal, or can i get this file size down some how without reducing the length of the movie or the quality where it is not reasonable.

I have seen stuff on myspace and seen movie longer and the quality is fair good, but does the files size have to be this much, if so myspace must have 100000000 of gigs !!!

any advise is appreaciated.

SWF Size Is Way Too Large
i have my test swf uploaded to www.aartpack.com/~michele if anyone would like to check it out. I have 2 major problems with the site and hope that someone will have some suggestions for me before I pull my hair out.

#1 Problem
The first problem is the size of my swf. My preloader percentage bar in my "Portfolio" section is getting stuck because there are so many images for it to load. My swf size is 12.6 MB (I know I know...it's WAY too big!) and I need to figure out a way to make it smaller so it will load faster. My images are saved as png files because the color and quality looks so much better than a gif or a jpeg. My images are also loaded into the .fla file and not externally. Does the swf file size decrease dramatically if you load the images externally??? Does anyone have any suggestions for me to decrease this whopper of a swf size?

#2 Problem
You can see on the site that I originally made my document size 1000x720 because we wanted to have the white space around the content. Now we just want the content of the movie in it's own window. Is there anyway to decrease the white space area of the swf using html?? We want to make sure that the content of the movie stays the same size.

I would appreciate is anyone could help me out! I have been working on this site forever and I just want to get it posted!

Happy Flashing!

How Large Is Too Large For A Movie These Days?
Hi, we're developing our portfolio site which will have a LOT of images that must be very high quality. So to keep quality up I know we have to sacrifice file size (or vice-versa).

We've divided each of the sections of images into separate movies so there is usually less than 8 images per movie. That way someone would only need to wait if they clicked to see a specific movie.

- My question is: What is considered 'large' for a movie file in these days of broadband?

We are not planning on having preloaders for the individual movies, and would like them to come up pretty quickly (so no sluggishness or blank screens). I'm also looking into how to have the movies loading in the background so that there would be less or no delay once they are called up.

As an example, one of our larger sized movie tests showed a size of around 350k for med-high quality, and about 750k for really good quality. We prefer to have the quality of the latter, but don't want people to get frustrated waiting.

On our local med-fast broadband (3.0Mb/Sec DSL) the large movie loads up pretty much instantly and looks great. But we don't want to alienate anyone.

THANKS!

Size Of Swf File Becomes Very Large
If i use japanese font in a dynamic text box and if i select the embed font out line option for all the characters, the size is becoming very large.

If i dont use this option, the characters are not becoming smooth.

Is there any workaround for it so that the size does not become large.

Fla File Size Too Large
Hey, I made a flash file in which I imported a movie clip. After a few revisions, I deleted the movie from the FLA file, and removed it from the library. But the size of the fla file is still 22 MB, and I have no idea what could be making it so large. Is there a list of componets and their file sizes in Flash?

Any other ideas?

Large Video Size
can flash mx 2004 handle with a video file of 128 MB ??

Need To Size Down - Site Too Large
i am opening myself up for criticism.

but in return i need someone to help me get the size (memory) down on a site under construction.
it is www.triviapro.com

it was constructed with all pages on the same timeline w/ "upon release goto" actionscript for the links.

should i have saved each section as a movie and used the actionscript to open each one as needed? can someone advise me on how this is done? is this the common method for reducing size? as you can see my graphic elements aren't very abundant/intense.

i really need to finish this up but its already too large.
any advice is appreciated. if i must i can email the .fla to those who are serious about helping.

thanks

thrillbilly

File Size Too Large?
I have completed my first website. One of the swf files is 3.2megs and seems to stall or not load. Is it possible the file is too large? Is there a recommended maximum file size?

website: cvdesignweb.com
area of problem: portfolio, graphics. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Thanks,

John

Centering Large Swf In Any Browser Size ?
Can any one help ? I have to center a 1600 x 1200 swf in a browser window ( aligned top , center) , only having scrollbars vertically...

THe only way I know of to do this would be to , create 4 separate files for each targeted browser size, and do a screen res detect and direct. ? can any one help ?

thanks
pixi.

Large File Size From Images
Hi,
I would like to create a movie with scrolling thumbnails that are enlarged when clicked on. The problem is there are about 100 jpgs that need to be displayed, which will result in a very large swf.

So is there any way to call up an image without actually including it in the swf?

Thanks.

Large File Size Problems
Hello,

Oversized movie questions...

Is it true unused items are not included in the swf file?

I have an unsual file size. I think it should be about 300K but the swf file is 800K. I tried everything to located the culprit with no success. There is no sound or large bitmaps sitting in the library.

Is there a way to check library items file size?

Or is there a way to track down large items in flash?

Thank You

iaustin

Needlessly Large Fla File Size
I have a number of fla files which feature audio and video files, so one could expect them to have a large size, however, if i create a new file using FILE> SAVE AS and then delete all of the audio and video files from the stage and library, the file size remains very high.

Even though i can publish the 'empty' fla and it comes out at 21k or so, the .fla file stays at the large size, sometimes up to 20 or 30 mb.

Has anyone any thoughts on this? I know that I could just create 'empty' template files and populate them with my content but this should'nt be happening...and the server is filling up fast.

Thanks all,

D

Large File Size - No Reason
I got my flash movie finished and when published for testing, in Bandwidth Profiler i recognized that the first scene called Pre-Loader session (must be almost 2 KB naturaly) gets 16 KB of capasity! Inside my pre-loader session there are some plain objects and 2 frames of actionscript. but when i add this scence to My movie main_scence its size gets too high! anyone knows what the point is?

Large File Size Question
I'm working on a final schoolproject at the moment and the file size is getting really large... Because I might update this project later with more footage, I've already put a lot of code on the buttons which I have put between comment tags for now, so I'll be able to update it later easily.

The max on our project is 10MB, now there is a lot of external footage like sound and video, but still all the flash files together are taking up a lot of space.

Does anyone know if a lot of comments in the code have any effect on file size?

Flex Large Swf File Size
Hello,

I have a small Flex application that simply displays some text, there are no resources (images, sound, etc) embedded or anything, and the swf file is around 150kb, which seems unreasonably large to me. I double checked not to include any packages but the ones that are needed and still nothing. Are there any steps that I can take to decrease the file size?
I am using FlexSDK to build the application.

Can't Figure Out What's Causing Large Size
I have nothing on my first frame, yet the file generator report indicates 30,000 bytes. Can someone check out my fla to let me know what I'm missing?

How Do I LoadMovie Large Swf Into Predefined Smaller Size?
Hi,

I have a project where I am working with a SWF file that is 640x480 called hd.swf.

I have a master movie called howarddean.swf

Inside howarddean.swf i have an empty movie clip with an instance name mc1

I need to loadMovie the hd.swf into mc1.

The only problem is, the movie loads up but takes up the whole screen. I need the hd.swf to come in at 320x240 not 640x480...

Please help!

I'm so frustrated right now.

Thanks,

Rob

Large Size Digital Photo Problem
How to make the flash swf smaller (apart from using the properties panel) if put large size pics in flash?

Reducing The Size Of A Large Flash File?
I have a very large fla. Does anyone have suggestions as to how I reduce the size? I'm going thru each image to make sure they are optimized. Is there a way I should have organized movie clips that would have made this fla smaller? Any suggestions would be appreciated. The main url is www.foodplays.com. Click on the scroll bar at the bottom and it takes you to this link: http://www.foodplays.com/Harlequin.htm
This is the fla I'm having trouble with
Thanks

Large Font Size In Reduced Dynamic Text
large font size in reduced dynamic text:

I am using an email form. The original size was 500x400 or something similar. I reduced the size to 160x100.

The problem is that the font size in a dynamic text field on the form which receives input from a php file is now HUGE. Even if i now set the font size to 8.

Do you know of a solution to this?

TIA

Motion Tweening Large Images And Transforming Size...
Hey,
Im making a basic TV Commercial for a project....and basically im making it out of Images...so i want to make an Animation out of it so what im doing is using lareg image files and motion tweening them while the reduce in size or increase in size whilst moving slightly across the screen...

my problem is that whenever i do this it comes out very choppy as in the edge of the image is very choppy when it moves and reduces/increases size....is there anyway to fix this??? or should i even use a different Application???

Thanks heaps to Anyone who can Help me...

Seb

Site Wayyyyyy Too Large - Need Some Ideas To Cull File Size
Ok, so I'm no flash expert & I get a contract from some guys who want an all-flash site to display their photo business. I thought it was probably not the best way to display their wares, given that it would be chock full of bitmaps and push up the file size. I didn't think it would push the swf up to half a meg tho' .....

http://www.icandyphotography.com.au/test/

I'd really appreciate some suggestions as to how I can cut down my file size, because it's painfully slow to load over a dial-up connection & even broadband... what can I do? I'm not a regular flash user & just tend to do whatever works for me, so I'm not used to breaking up my files... or loading things externally... in fact, I'm pretty sure I've made this thing entirely the wrong way, if there is a wrong way... but I don't have the time to rework it & just need to implement a few space-saving ideas...

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and blessings will be heaped upon you & your family.... :>

How To Make The Uploaded Flash File Appear Large Size In My Website?
Hi, can someone help check my this "testing website". Y I cant view my flash file in full-screen mode? Wherelse, when I alreadly set my file to fullscreeen?? The flash in my website is too small to be seem. What Can i do to correct it??

Website:
http://bubblebebe.tripod.com/

Really Thanks..

[CS3] Small File Size, Large Image Causes Laggy Performance
Hello. I have a SWF that is about 800k. In that SWF is a very basic animation, and over time an image comes in, fills the screen, and exits. I'm running at 1360x768, 30 frames per second, on a 42inch LCD with a custom box. This custom box is very minimal in power, but we've used it and boxes like it for these animations for over a year now (not this actual pc, just same build type). It has always been relatively smooth, able to play 12mb files with multiple animations taking place simultaneously. The only time it has ever lagged is this time, with one large (1360x1360 masked to 1360x768) movie clip filling the screen and then fading out.

Any tips for optimization? I'd really like to eliminate the chugging that is taking place, especially since I'm not done adding elements to this file. Thanks in advance!

[F8] Loader Component Is Providing Extra Large Size While Uploading In Internet Exp.
loader component is providing extra large size while uploading the swf ( which is in a sub directory ) in internet explorer, while it has best fit in Mozilla,

i have one main file main.swf which is having loader loading '.swf' files from a sub folder but when i open my flash in my mozilla, it works properly without unwanted resize,but in ie 6 this content of the loader is enlarged.

enlarged While it upload first time but if i call it again 'without refresh' it is well set as required

Also that i have published the settings AC_RunActiveContent.js.
I tired clearing regedit
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInterne t ExplorerActiveX Compatibility{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}"

but its not working...
Please help can as for more information

[F8] Loader Component Is Providing Extra Large Size While Uploading In Internet Exp.
loader component is providing extra large size( I think scalecontent is not working in IE6 ) while uploading the swf ( which is in a sub directory ) in internet explorer, while it has best fit in Mozilla,

i have one main file main.swf which is having loader loading '.swf' files from a sub folder but when i open my flash in my mozilla, it works properly without unwanted resize,but in ie 6 this content of the loader is enlarged.

enlarged While it upload first time but if i call it again 'without refresh' it is well set as required

Also that i have published the settings AC_RunActiveContent.js.
I tired clearing regedit
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInterne t ExplorerActiveX Compatibility{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}"

but its not working...
Please help, and can as for more information

http://silverlines.co.in/flashdemo

Goto "GARMENT OPTIONS" choose any shirt it is behaving randomly

Load Movie & Unload Movie With A Large Amount And Gotoplay(2)
working on a website and i stuck on a sort of problem. and i hope someone can give me an advise about it.
trying to explain this as clear as i can.

i have a bar where i want to load different movieclips in.
when i load one movie clip called for example: concert1.swf i want the other movie clip called concert2.swf gotoandplay(2).
these movieclips get loaded from hitarea's in a different part from the site.
these say:
tellTarget ("_root.frontmovieclip.concert1") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
if you select an other button it says :
tellTarget ("_root.frontmovieclip.concert1") {
gotoAndPlay(6);
}
tellTarget ("_root.frontmovieclip.concert2") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

this all will work fine. the problem is i have 42 concerts. so this would mean i would have to tell each hit area an entire list of 42 telltargets that would go play frame 6 or 2 if i want them in random order.

now i was thinking is there a way that if you press concert1 that it load that movie and tell anyother concert that is already there to go play 6.

so that i don't need 42 lines but only 2.
something like:
tellTarget ("_root.frontmovieclip.concert2") {
gotoAndPlay(2);
}
tellTarget ("_root.frontmovieclip.variableconcert") {
gotoAndPlay(6);
}
and that in concert2 it can say it should go to the variableconcert when it's done playing.

you can check what i mean at http://exuo.tripod.com/poging3.html (past concerts, deftones)

hopefully someone can give me some advise and if you need more info please ask.

How Large A Large Of A File Justifies A Preloader?
I want to know some or your thoughts
How large a file justifies a preloader?

How To Resize That Large Movie?
I created a flash movie which involves masking and i created this in a massive 800 x 600 a while ago stupidly, its basically a piece of text with loads of black round it, but now what i want to do is shrink this document down to a measly 150px high by 600px etc

Whenever i do this via document the shrink down only shrinks down the background and the animation is left way down on the page.

I've tried selecting all frames and moving them up to the resied background, but no such luck, tried selecting all etc and moving it to the area, still messes up etc.

I even tried to center it using the align tool to stage etc and still no luck....

So basically how do i get the whole text animation to fit nicely to my resized background without messing up?

Thank you for any help

Published Movie Too Large
We have recently purchased Flash MX professional and have tried out the new "slide" generation facility. We are inserting 350 x 231 pixel images into each slide with a fade transition; it is a slide show. This new feature will make our slide presentations much faster to make compared to Flash 5 which required a very complicated set of movie transitions and key frame usage.

When we go to publish the movie the file size is huge, around 3.5MB compared to the old method, which are usually around 600KB for the same amount of images. Surely we must be doing something wrong?

We have tried to amend the publish settings but we still end up with large file sizes. Any help would be appreciated, we would rather not go back to the old, longer method if we can help it!

Thanks in advance.

Help With Large Movie Clip It Gets Cut Off..
Ok - i'm using a scroll pane to scroll through a company's News page. I created the News page as a Movie Clip that is called into that scroll pane. The News section is long - very long, and gets cut off about half way through. the only way to see the entire page is to make the font so small you can read anything.

Is there a way to overcome cut off issue?

Also - since it's only text from the crosshair of the page down - can i change the location of the crosshairs? to utilize more of the stage?

thanks in advance.
b

Scroll Large Movie
Hello all,

I am new to Flash and AS3. However, I am ambitious! and would like to do something like this: http://demos.mootools.net/Fx.Scroll

in flash...

Where do I start?

Thanks!

Scroll Large Movie
Hello

Is it possible to do this: http://demos.mootools.net/Fx.Scroll

in flash?

I don't know much AS3 at all, how hard would it be to do this? I know you can go to differnet coordinates in the movie right? Do I make a Flash movie that has many small movies inside it that are outside of the viewable area and have them scroll into view??

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Large Movie Prob
Hai all,

i have a large movie wihic is 5mb in size of the swf. when i test the movie its stops some part i cant understand what is the prob.
is there any limits to flash movies in size
before that the movie is so large so i splitted it. again it gives the same prob. in the 5 th or 6th scene it will be stopped. i am using 15 scenes in that movie. in that movies there is a navigation is there. play,stop, forward, backward. in the stop button the script is stop();
play button have play()
forware button nextScene()
play()
and backward buton prevScene()
play()

these the script i am using

before splitting in this movie i have the same prob. its strukking in the 7 scene. so that i splitted in two parts now thar 7 scene is running. now 6 5 scene is stops...

if i test the scene only it will runs fine...

when i test the whole movie it is a prob....

Match The Size Of A Dynamic Movie To The Size Of Its Parent Container Using ActScrpt?
I have a program that is dynamically loading images into a nested movie clip. The Parent movie contains the two separate movies within it and images are to switch back and forth in them. I need to know how I can use action script to load these nested movies to the exact dimension of the parent movieclip.

Here is my code:

onClipEvent (load) {
StagePictures._lockroot = true;

e_mc.loadMovie(_root.PathText+_root.imageClips[0]);

}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (Key.isDown(a number)) {
if (Key.isDown(Key.something)) {
if (Key.isDown(a number)) {
_root.StagePictures.e_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("SecondClip" , 3);
_root.StagePictures.e_mc.SecondClip.loadMovie(_root.PathText+_root.imageClips[1]);
_root.ScoreBox.text = scvar+1;
_root.Command.text = _root.imageCommand[1];
_root.Response.text = "Correct!";
}
}
}
}

StagePictures is the parent clip, e_mc is a child, and SecondClip is a child within e_mc.

Both e_mc, and SecondClip are loading the dynamic images which are the paths labeled _root.PathText+_root.imageClips[0, and 1];

The size of the images need to be contained within the size of the parent clip of both called StagePictures.

How can I set the size of the two nested clips to match the parent?

Thanks,
sam

Cancelling A Large Movie - Midstream
If you want to stop a large SWF from finishing loading into the main movie, can you?

I've used loadMovie to initiate the load into a target MC, then unloadMovie, thinking that it would stop loading the movie. The unloadMovie command works in that the clip disappears from the stage, but the SWF continues to dowload (as evidenced by the Activity Viewer of the mac browser Safari.)

Thanks is advance.

Hit Area Too Large For My Movie Clip
Hi,

I have created a movie clip and has a a onPress event again it. Fo some reason I can still activate the event even though my mouse is very far from the movie clip.

Not sure if I am explain this well enough but is very strange.

Any advice will be great!
Charlie

Scrolling Large Movie Clips
re: http://www.knifeandpacker.com/

does anyone know how this scrolling interface might be done? is it one huge movie clip? if not how could it be done?

thanks in advance

Compressing Large Flash Movie
hi ive been working on a movie in imovie then exporting to flash that is only 1min long put buttons on it in flash but when i save it . it ends up being 7mb !! i can not upload this to my website its just too large. !!!! oh help i feel like i have tried everything!

Preloader For LARGE Flash MX Movie - Help - Please
Hi there.

So I've got a large movie (about 94k) that I need to preload. I used my usual Preloader script, which has been working great for me FOREVER and it just doesn't go! If I take out the movieclip with the images (yes they're optimized half to death) it loads fine.

Can anybody tell me why this might be? Here is what I'm doing:

Main content is a movie clip on second frame of main timeline.

There's a stop action on second frame of main timeline.

This code is in first frame of main timeline:

stop();
myInterval = setInterval(preloader, 10);
function preloader() {
if (getBytesLoaded()>=getBytesTotal()) {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
}
bar._xscale = (getBytesLoaded()/getBytesTotal())*100;
myTextField.text = Math.round(getBytesLoaded()/getBytesTotal()*100)+"%";
}

Why oh why is this happening?

Anybody...please...

Thanks.

How Best To Handle Large Flash Movie
Hi -

This is my first post to this forum. I am in the process of constructing a large continuous Flash animation with no interactivity (i.e., the experience will be more like watching video than Flash) - it will be about 1:30 - 2:00 minutes with lots of audio (music and voice over). My problem is that I'm crashing a lot. I'm hesitant to try calling up various SWFs in the process of playing the movie because it should play continuously and seamlessly once it begins. Is there a good (meaning fast and reliable) way to do a large project like this in several individual FLAs and then assemble them later?

BTW, I'm on a Mac. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Preloading A Large First Frame In A Movie
hello guys,
i was working on a website involving a few 200kB images. one of these images form a the first frame of the movie (thats excluding the preloader frame) because of which the preloader does not appear untill the full first frame has been laoded. also the rest of the frames form only another 50kB in size. so it kind of takes a long time to load the prelaoder progress bar or progress text.
so does any one have a solution to have the preloader do the intended job?
also using loadMovieNum or loadMovie or movieclip.loadmovie methods is it possible to load an external file inbetween two layers in the main movie ?

Browser Size Doesn't Match Flash Movie Size
Can anyone help me figure out how to make the Browser or Window that launches my .swf file fit exactly the size of the Flash Movie's dimensions?

My movie is 800x550 yet when launched it in a browser there is extra space around it which shows the elements that are outside the border of the movie which I later tween onto the stage.

In short, how do I constrain the Browser Window to fit the dimension of the Flash movie?

Thanks,
Tony

Resize Flash Movie To Size Of Users Screen Size
hey,

Is it possible to resize a web page that has a swf file to the exact size of the users screen size i.e. 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768? If so can someone help please?

DEE

Trace Bitmaps Are Large How To Condense Movie?
I'm making a movie that uses 5 550 x 400 trace bitmapped pictures at different times, you can physically watch it refresh, it's not a clean switch. Is there a way to better the performence of the movie? Thanks!

First Frame In Movie Too Large -- Delays Preloader
Hello, this is my first post. I have numerous movies (all part of the same larger site) and am having the same problem in all of them. I am using a standard two-frame preloader setup (preloader on fr1, goto1 script on fr2, until movie is loaded and the loop is busted and the movie begins on fr3). The preloader is 4k and there is nothing else on frame 1. However, frame 1 weighs in at 36k, and since Flash will not render a frame until it is completely loaded, I have to wait for 36k to load before my preloader starts. My movie is only 90k (others are around 60), so my movies are 1/3 to 1/2 loaded before my preloader come on.

Does anyone have any idea 1) what the problem is (I have heard things about MX components loading in the first frame) and 2) how to fix it.

Thanks.
carolinaDesign