Importing movie to flash

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folk,

how you all doing?

I have a .mov movie that I have imported into Flash MX and it is 8mb. When I import the movie into Flash and then export it,
it’s still way too big weighnig in at 6.3mb.

Is there a way of making the .swf any smaller at all??

Apreciate your help.

chuk.
:toad:

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Hey!

yes u can, when u take it into flash it asks u to link it or embed it right, so go embed it.

Then u can compress it using that program that comes up.
reduce the scale and the quality a bit more, that should help.

Other option is taking it into adobe after effects a editing program and u can import ur movie and render it again at a smaller compression such as sorenson video 3, that will bring it down a big chunk.

=)

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Thanks Dave.

I’ve done that in After effects and have managed to bring it down to about 1086k.

Problem is now, it does’nt paly smoothly. It plays in a kind of jerky motion…

Please have a look at the link below and tell me what you think…

Do I need to add a preloader?

Cheers…

chuk

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This is a shot in the dark, but I believe a video file’s FPS is 30 so when you import it into flash, make sure the FPS is set to 30 as well.

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EG is right, this should sort it. The default fps on Flash movies is only 12.

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thats weird its never happened to me b4.

I had a 80 meg movie, i took it to aftereffects, compressed it as a sorenson 3 brought it down to 15 megs or so.

Then i took it to flash on 18fps and it worked fine, i also compressed it in flash bringing it to 6 megs or so, so i dnt know y u have that problem…sorry.