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I need help Making a Flash file smaller.
9 years ago
My original Animation was around 24 MB, more than double the 10MB FA allows for flash files, It was largely frame by frame animation colored in.
Following various optimization instructions online I've managed to shave off a good deal of it, at a great price, I've all but lost my original lines to the optimization tool and I've run out of things I can think of to possibly make it any smaller at 11MB, but did not save a backup original before my meddlings.
I've seen massive, complex animations with music, dozens of separate animations, paths, and buttons, posted here on FA, so there must be something incredibly obvious and powerful they are using to decrease their file size, or bypass the limit altogether.
Steps I've taken so far
-Converted all frame by frame animation into Movie Clips.
-Exported and saved the background as a Jpg. before importing back
-Butchered most of my linework with the shape optimization tool
-Changed the resolution of the flash (which appears to do nothing to file size)
-Grouped all movie clips into one.
My flash file is literally one layer with a single symbol containing all of the components on the first frame, I can't think of any way to possibly make it smaller.
Any help would be appreciated
Following various optimization instructions online I've managed to shave off a good deal of it, at a great price, I've all but lost my original lines to the optimization tool and I've run out of things I can think of to possibly make it any smaller at 11MB, but did not save a backup original before my meddlings.
I've seen massive, complex animations with music, dozens of separate animations, paths, and buttons, posted here on FA, so there must be something incredibly obvious and powerful they are using to decrease their file size, or bypass the limit altogether.
Steps I've taken so far
-Converted all frame by frame animation into Movie Clips.
-Exported and saved the background as a Jpg. before importing back
-Butchered most of my linework with the shape optimization tool
-Changed the resolution of the flash (which appears to do nothing to file size)
-Grouped all movie clips into one.
My flash file is literally one layer with a single symbol containing all of the components on the first frame, I can't think of any way to possibly make it smaller.
Any help would be appreciated
Audio files might probably be the large ones, and if you're using bitmap, I think high-resolution images will also be fat.
The size report says that that bulk of it is coming from my brush drawings themselves that were drawn with the brush tool in flash.