# Flash movie dimensions, and making things smaller?!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 6, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528 "2003-04-06T16:11:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Alucard\_X](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alucard_X)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528/1 "2003-04-06T16:11:52Z")
Hey everyone,
I am working on a site, and have made a very simple page as i am a newcomer to the wonderful world of flash.
I have put up a page:
[http://www.hinduvidya.com](http://www.hinduvidya.com)
A lot of people are complaining that it comes up too big on their comps. My dimensions are 1000 x 700 pixels
My comps res is at the highest setting [1600x1200], so it looks fine.
Is this:
a) too big for everyone to see well
b)fine
If this is too big, how can i shrink everything easily to the right setting?
please help…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528/2 "2003-04-06T16:26:22Z")
I know you can edit the size in dreamweaver, but then the image of the om becomes fuzzy…i need that NOT to happen lol
Why does this happen to me :q:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528/3 "2003-04-06T16:37:06Z")
I mean i have two options:
1. just shrink the entire movie by x% or
2. make someway of the movie detecting if people are not on the X-level of my movie’s resolution, then redirecting them to a page to tell them to increase their res.
Obviously, a site which makes an inconvenience of itself will never do well, so i would really hope for some way to do number 1 [rather than manually editing everything in the movie which is practically impossible now] but if anyone can offer a way of doing number 2, i’d still be highly grateful.
Thanks…
~Alucard
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528/4 "2003-04-06T17:01:24Z")
Or…is there any way that when i resize the movie in dreamweaver mx, the pictures/text aren’t messed up?
I am sure there must be, but i don’t know how!
Because this would be the most painless and fastest way.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528/5 "2003-04-06T19:33:36Z")
Hi!
In answer to your questions:
A…and…1.
I couldn’t see your link, I think it’s broken.
A lot of people (like one of my two computers) is still 800x600. So only a portion of your SWF would show up. Telling people to change thier res will usually just make them change their mind about visiting your site.:sure:
Okay. I usually use notepad for my code, but I have Dreamweaver and I know it has a code area. Go to the code area and find your flash object tags. At the end of the object tag, you can adjust the width and height:
```php
...WIDTH="350" HEIGHT="350" id="thunderstars" ALIGN="">
```
I just tried it to see if it would work and it adjusts the movie and it does! Hope that helps!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528/6 "2003-04-06T22:26:33Z")
Thank you for taking the time to help me, my friend!
The problem is, when i reduce the ratio of the flash file as you have suggested, the symbol of the “om” pixellates.
Is there anyway to prevent this, friend?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-dimensions-and-making-things-smaller/17528/7 "2003-04-07T01:54:35Z")
No, I’m not really sure what you mean by pixellating. You are trying to go smaller, right? If so, then your quality shouldn’t change. If you are going bigger, as far as I know, your quality will be reduced.
(-: