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Subject: Flash/Swish...Differnet file sizes???

harold_u opened this issue on Sep 01, 2000 · 4 posts
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harold_u ( ) posted Fri, 01 September 2000 at 1:09 AM · edited Sat, 30 November 2024 at 6:02 PM

I have a flash intro that I've been working on, and decided to use some of the text effects from SWISH and import them into my flash intro. I made about 8 different text effects in SWISH and exported them out. The file size of each of the exported files done in SWISH was about 4KB to 5KB each. When I imported the files into my intro movie in flash and finally exported the final movie with my intro and the text effects to my surprise the file size of my movie had jumped from 110KB(with out the imported text effects) to 355KB(with the text effects imported).... now can somebody help me here, Why such a big difference with the file size? ..... If the added total of the 8 exported files from SWISH was about 40KB, then why did my movie jumped about 245BK in file size as apposed to the "40KB" that theoretically it should have when I imported the files into flash. If there any way to keep the file size down from going up like crazy when importing it into Flash and then exporting the final movie??? Any help here would be greatly apreciated?

Albedo ( ) posted Sat, 16 September 2000 at 12:03 AM

Swish files are a lot smaller that swf files. Why? Swish files are made of instructions like, "Move letter A to the left, and grow it by 8 points." swf files are more like, "Okay, at this frame, the letter A is this big, and at this spot. At the next frame, it's this big, and over here." Get it? Swf files are bigger, becuase they don't read those more generic intructions in the swish files.

harold_u ( ) posted Sun, 17 September 2000 at 12:35 AM

I'm not talking about the Swish files, I'm talking about the swf files. I am talking about he swf files that Swish exports out, which I am later importing into flash to use as part of another movie. My movie is only 100KB in size, after I import a 29KB swf file (that swish exported) into my movie, the file size jump to about 353KB for the final output. Is there any way to get around this or not?

pnevai ( ) posted Tue, 26 September 2000 at 10:49 AM

Your swish files are growing because as explained before Flash handles vector manipulation differently. Flash is much more sofisticated and assigns more commands to tach frame. Not only doe it track the size and location of each component frame by frame but it also assigns things like transparency, motion tracking, and other paremeters to each graphical element. If you have noticed there are a whole ton of things you can do in flash that are not a part of the tool set in swish.

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