file size

[Guest_imported]

thanks for answering so quickly...

the format i saved the movie is fla but the file size is normal 30MB and i deleted the bitmaps from the library, afterwards the size was bigger...the soundfiles are all mp3s. are there any actions ore kinds of files apart from bitmaps that need much space to save? i have some motion tweens and color tweens...
do graphic symbols made from bitmaps take the same capacity than bitmaps even when i delete the bitmap afterwards?
does the file size have something to do with the amount of layers?

 

[Bignewbie]

i think the object in your library doesn't affect your file size (im talking about the swf) but it does affect your fla. my graphic artist and i think layers and more frames add to the size of the swf. bitmaps take up considerable sizes too.

 

[wangbar]

The object in your library does affect filesize inasmuch as you can optimise it within Flash and the bytes you save are also removed from the symbols that are "children" of the object.

The other day I created a movie with loads of imported bitmaps (over 30) the .fla was over 1MB and the .swf was about 500K. Too big for the web right? Then I optimised the imported graphics within Flash and the file sizes dropped to 200K and 110K respectively.

Here's how: in your library right click on an imported bitmap and you'll get a few options including "edit with..", you can do a "round trip" edit - Flash exports the graphic to your image editing program and then reimports the optimised file once you're finished, passing the filesize saving on to the .swf file when you publish. If you have Flash 5 and Fireworks 4 installed the "edit with Fireworks 4" option pops up and it works GREAT. I haven't tried it with Photoshop yet but apparently it works just as well.