# SWF Movie Clips Too Big... How to make files smaller?

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**Created:** [January 10, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-movie-clips-too-big-how-to-make-files-smaller/174980 "2006-01-10T20:06:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-movie-clips-too-big-how-to-make-files-smaller/174980/1 "2006-01-10T20:06:47Z")

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Hello all, I hope you are all well.

Question: I have external SWF’s that I’m calling out for, and I placed Preloaders on them because they are portfolios - but the SWF files are 3.8 MB and up! That seems so big for the web!!! I want to make sure the images are the best possible quality so I didn’t compress them in Photoshop, but compressed in Flash using the “lossless” setting…

Anyway, the Preloader takes about 15 or 20 seconds to load - WAY TOO LONG… any ideas?

Oh - I tried exporting the movie at different JPEG level settings - but it made no difference…

THANK YOU!!!