# The real movie clip size?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-real-movie-clip-size/64282>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 14, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-real-movie-clip-size/64282 "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/64282/1 "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

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-real-movie-clip-size/64282/2 "2004-09-14T21:07:40Z")

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4 is the size of a movieclip without anything in it. You need to make sure the image has loaded or wait for in whatever way recognized that the image is being recognized as being part of the clip itself.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-real-movie-clip-size/64282/3 "2004-09-15T05:27:36Z")

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and how do i do that ?