flash (macromedia): Does anyone here use any of these? And do they really work? I currently have
an animated gif which I created using Adobe Illustrator, and the GIF came out
to be about 93kb, then I decided to export the GIF as a flash movie from
Illustrator, but whoa! The SWF came out to be about 130kb. So it got bigger,
which is not good.

And Flash8 wont allow me to open the swf, so I'm not sure what the heck
Illustrator may have inserted, so I'm wondering if I should purchase one of
those flash optimizer programs? Are they worth the $30 they are charging?

Urami,

Very nice.

My company has been using our own multimedia library since the early 90s and
experimented with FutureSplash to see whether we should package our stuff up in
a similar manner. We had numerous advantages over it, but were really focusing
on a different way of utilizing our stuff.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda...

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True true, been there, countless times.

You know what they say:
"the one who take the risks, will make it (mostly), the one that doesn't, will work
for the one who take the risks"...




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Urami


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Future Splash
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Jeckyl

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It was call "Future Splash" and it was made in 1996 by FutureWave Software.

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These tools do work if the movie is made of complex vectors not imported images.
What it does is basically make the vectors very small and than scale them up so
what you look at is a very small image that was stretched. In complex movie made
of hundreds of vector animation (like cartoons) you might find some size difference
but not when comes to imported GIF, JPG, PNG or sounds. It has not impact that
that kind of content.

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You can't open actually open SWF, it's a compress format and finalized movie.
You can File - Import that SWF only.
Whether it's worth ? Your call but personally I have never use it and don't know
anyone who does and I have been doing flash ever since it started. Optimizing
kind of became part of the work flow and working habit.



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I see. Well, thanks for the response. I just decided to import the GIF images
and convert each bitmap to symbols one by one, a tedious process yes, but hey,
the flash movie came down to 23k, whereas the original GIF was about 93k, and
the Illustrator exported SWF was 130k.