# How to resize a swf?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-resize-a-swf/76992 "2005-01-23T16:42:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avalantis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@Avalantis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Avalantis)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-resize-a-swf/76992/1 "2005-01-23T16:42:33Z")

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Hello,  
my question is probably asked a zillion times, but I have surfed across the internet and still did not find the correct answer to my question. Which is:

I created an animation in the dimensions: 1024x768  
It was for a schoolproject and it had to be this big.  
Now that I finished it however, I want to post the movie on [newgrounds.com](http://newgrounds.com) who have a 5 MB limit. However, not only is the filesize itself too big, I can’t seem to resize the dimensions whatever I do.

People said that if I change the html dimensions the swf will automatically take these dimensions by default.

However,  
it doesn’t.  
My html nicely becomes smaller whereas the swf stays 1024x768.

Because it is a: a large file and b: it contains a very important virtual camara, I can’t export the swf and resize it on a new stage. My computer either hangs itself or the camara is suddenly visable.

So my question is:  
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[color=Red] How can I resize a swf??[/color]\*

I have lots of bitmaps in it, that make it also very large, but set that aside there must be a simple way to resize a swf? Right??

Ps: I am a complete n00b in ActionScript so if you give me codes, tell me where to paste them please 😉

Thanks in advance,

Bianca ~

Pps: One of the movies is found here [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/214862](http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/214862) . The other is 12mb and thus to big…