Flash MX 2004 export quality

**Goran** · 08-05-2005, 06:02 PM

I have problem exporting the .fla to .swf

1. Yes, .jpeg export quality is set to 100%

2. compres movie = no

3. I tried adding _quality = "BEST" in first frame, but it dosen't help (maybe I'm doing it wrong tho, so if someone could explain how to do I would appriciate it).

4. Quality is great when I edit .fla in Flash.

Here is the swf if you want to see why I complain about quality. (Note: it is 3 mb big (need to clean up library

))

http://hpd.bizhat.com/HPD.swf

**cr3ative** · 08-05-2005, 06:18 PM

3mb is huuuuuge for a flash file. You wouldn't want it any larger, especially not without a preloader.

As for quality, it looks fine here. Check your browser's built in player settings.
And don't export JPEG's at 100% - that creates huge files. Stick to 50% or thereabouts. If it creates usuable results, vector-trace the bitmaps.

cr3

**Twey** · 08-05-2005, 06:44 PM

Yup, doesn't look too bad here either. Certainly acceptable.

**darco9x2** · 08-05-2005, 09:38 PM

great, thats awesome.

**Goran** · 08-06-2005, 08:42 AM

Yea 3 mb is big, but 2 of 3 mb is the song, and my library is full of pics and stuff I don't need. That will offcourse change afterwords. The quality is acceptable just like Twey sad but not 100%, I mast have everything perfect =)

Lmao I didn't even notice there is no preloader, it was there, but I must have messed up the code afterwords, tnx for warning. As for browser settings, everything is set up right.

I ll clean up the fla and report back then.

tnx guys

**cr3ative** · 08-06-2005, 08:52 AM

2 of 3 mb is the song

That's way too large. You can easily compress that down to 250kb using the built in tools in Flash.

cr3

**Twey** · 08-06-2005, 09:09 AM

What format are you using for the song?
Try oggenc'ing it, or whatever the equivalent verb is for MP3.

**Goran** · 08-06-2005, 09:53 AM

Song is in mp3, but I tried compresing it in flash, it sad it will be 16% of original (300kb or so) but when I exported, the size was same. I ll deal with that by compresing the song more before I import it to .fla.

What I realy don't understand now is what happend to my preloader... first there is no preloader, than it apperas when the movie is half loaded, bar is on the half and it loads fine till the end than.

Here is my preloader code, I can't find anything wrong tho... Maybe you will:

Code:

t = this.getBytesTotal();
l = this.getBytesLoaded();
p = l / t * 100;
_root.PreloaderBar.gotoAndStop(Math.round(p / 1) + 1);
_root.PreLoaderBar.PercentL = String(int(p)) add "%";

**Goran** · 08-06-2005, 03:44 PM

Ok, I got it to 1,07mb, the music is to compressed though, but nvm, I'm gona use something else anyway. I did little changes, the progress bar is still not working (still waiting for some ideas).

I found out how to export full qualiy! What I had to do is that I had to go to library and find symbol I want to export in better quality, than setup the export settings manualy for every symbol (defoult is 50, 100 is full quality). Now exported pics look great

So... I gues that is the only way to export non jpeg pics in best quality, or there is maybe something I did wrong in the beggining

You can see updated version on same url http://hpd.bizhat.com/HPD.swf