# The real movie clip size?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-real-movie-clip-size/122558>\
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**Created:** [September 14, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-real-movie-clip-size/122558 "2004-09-14T20:44:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![tanel96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@tanel96](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tanel96)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-real-movie-clip-size/122558/1 "2004-09-14T20:44:11Z")

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i have a movie clip on the main timeline… inside that clip is an image… about ~1MB in size…

when i add this code to the mc:

```auto
 
trace(this.getBytesTotal());

```

then flash shows that the size is 4… how to get the real size of the movieclip ?  
i cannot use trace(\_root.getBytesTotal()); because i want only the movie clip size… not the size of the entire \*.swf file