# \[FMX\] File Size Question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-file-size-question/12598
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 2, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-file-size-question/12598 "2003-02-02T10:56:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Sraet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sraet)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-file-size-question/12598/1 "2003-02-02T10:56:58Z")
I am wondering if it would be smaller (or even possible since I am new at this) to make a 4 frame animation out of 2 images and simply flip the two images to make up the two frames with actionscript, or would just doing that manually be best?
Thanks(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-file-size-question/12598/2 "2003-02-02T15:25:26Z")
Don’t bother. Once a clip is in the library, putting it once or 1000 times doesn’t change the size of the swf (well, of course it does, but not much).
pom :skull:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-file-size-question/12598/3 "2003-02-02T18:35:06Z")
So if I had a Flash movie with just two graphic symbols in it, then used actionscript to play through them it owuld be smaller than having 4 graphic symbols.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-file-size-question/12598/4 "2003-02-02T18:47:52Z")
Not if the last 2 symbols are just the first 2 flipped horizontally (or vertically, I never know).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-file-size-question/12598/5 "2003-02-04T09:50:04Z")
Ahhh… Finally hit home what you were saying 🙂
Just halfed my animations file size… not that I suppose it matters… From 2.1k to 1.1k… its a small file anyways… But I learned something!
Thanks 🙂
PS: Here it is, silly really but _shrug_
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