# Advice on a big swf file
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 17, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407 "2003-06-17T16:35:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@jillymo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jillymo)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/1 "2003-06-17T16:35:29Z")
Okay I have this flash piece that is going to be embedded on a webpage.
The swf was at 400k…way too big! I am trying to reduce it, and have resaved (exported) most of the photos in fireworks as it seems to do a better job compressing than photoshop. Then I reimported -
I also removed some of the movie that I had origionally and am going to put that into a new file.
I went through my library and deleted all imported artwork and symbols that I was not using (though I am not sure if that affects size if they are not actually in the movie)
Well I still only got the swf down to 313k which is still big.
Any advice?
This is the link to the original:[http://www.cbconf.org/cbc/index.html](http://www.cbconf.org/cbc/index.html)
Well I tried to attach the fla so it could be looked though but it is too large. You will just have to go off what I wrote- thanks!
:sigh:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/2 "2003-06-17T16:56:09Z")
Its a lot of images. I dont see you getting much less in file size. More compression or sizing them to be a little smaller and stretching them out again in Flash will help, but you’re losing quality there.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/3 "2003-06-17T17:01:06Z")
yeah not much you can do but take out some images or make the intro shorter
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/4 "2003-06-17T17:12:47Z")
yeah I figured with all the pics…especially having tweens on them.
Well I guess I will just have to submit to client and say we have to cut some pictures as the only other solution…
thanks guys!
:cowboy:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/5 "2003-06-17T17:18:51Z")
well why dont you use AS instaed of tweens, it will make the file smaller
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/6 "2003-06-17T17:26:58Z")
use AS to alpha the pics? I have never done it. I have just always used the alpha and motion tween combo to achieve that result.
How do I do it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/7 "2003-06-17T17:34:11Z")
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4016](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4016)
use lostinbeta’s script, works like a charm
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/8 "2003-06-17T17:45:39Z")
:beam:
Thanks!!!
:beam:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/9 "2003-06-17T17:56:15Z")
no problem
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/10 "2003-06-17T18:29:18Z")
Do you know how I would make the code work both ways…like I want to fade something in, (start from alpha 0) then once it is at 100 it will sit for a certain amount of time and then fade out again…I have got the timing at the bottom figured out (0,100,5) in lost’s code…but I don’t know what to add to get the additional fading I want…
(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/11 "2003-06-17T18:31:31Z")
uhhhh, i gotta look, give me a few. i forgot how i did it
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/12 "2003-06-17T18:36:51Z")
compress your images and change them into .jpeg . that;ll help !
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/13 "2003-06-17T19:06:53Z")
Ok Dig - thanks for all your help!
Nasir-
I have compressed the images as much as I can while still keeping the quality I need- they were imported as jpeg’s
Thank you anyway…
😏
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/14 "2003-06-24T18:07:17Z")
Hey Digitalosophy (-:
Did you ever get a change or were you able to figure that effect out? I posted a reply in the thread you referred me to (with the code from Lost in Beta)
hoping that LIB would respond and not mind sharing the code, or at least explain the concept.
Anyway just wondering 😏
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/15 "2003-06-24T20:13:24Z")
hey sry man, forgot about this thread, imma about to leave work now, i promise i will look at it when i get home
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advice-on-a-big-swf-file/23407/16 "2003-06-24T20:20:26Z")
That’s ok Im not in a huge hurry :bounce:
Thanks!