Flash converting help

[seanyboy5300]

Hello all, new to the forums, long time Flash user. Too lazy to ugprade, but I use ol' fashioned Flash 5, and I'd like to convert my Flash movie to a .mpeg, or .avi, or .mov, anything I can, now I know Flash can covnert, and I've tried countless trial programs, but the thing is, when it converts, its always such a big file! I mean, I always see Flash movies people make on Youtube converted from a .SWF and they're about 7 megs tops, I made a soundless 175x100 video and it was still 200 Megs! I don't care for the quality, it's going on my celphone, I just need to know if there's a good way to compress converted Flash movies so they're not gargantuan files.

Thanks in advance

-Sean

 

[kennethkawamoto]

First of all videos on YouTube are FLV, not MPEG/AVI/MOV. If you convert your video into FLV the file size will drop, especially if you can accept low quality.

I don't know if your phone can play FLV though. You have to encode your video into a format your phone can play - usually 3GP, which is basically MPEG4.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[seanyboy5300]

Thanks Kenneth, I'll give that a try!