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Optimizing Your Movies for Fast Download Throughout this book, we offer suggestions for designing a Flash movie with speedy downloading in mind. In this section, we put the suggestions together so that you can review your movie as a whole before you publish it. Reducing your Flash Player file sizes is no longer so important because many people now have high-speed Internet connections. But not everyone does. So it still isn t a bad idea to spend a little time thinking about shrinking the size of your Flash movies. Simplifying artwork By simplifying the artwork in your movie, you can greatly reduce the size of a Flash movie, thereby increasing its speed. Here are the most important techniques: Use symbols for every object that appears more than once. You can turn any object or group of objects into a symbol. Nest your symbols for example, turn an object into a symbol and then use it in a movie clip or button. Remember that you can change the color of symbol instances you don t need to create a new symbol. (Chapter 7 covers symbols in detail.) Group objects whenever possible. Groups are almost as efficient as symbols. (Chapter 4 explains how to create groups.) Avoid bitmaps as much as possible. If you must use bitmaps, use them only for still elements don t animate them. (Chapter 3 explains how to import a bitmap and how to turn it into a vector graphic by tracing the bitmap.) Optimize curves (choose Modify.Shape.Optimize). Whenever possible, optimize curves to reduce the number of lines used to create a shape. (Check out Chapter 4 for further explanation.) Use solid lines rather than dashed, dotted, and other line types when possible. Try to avoid custom line widths. (We explain line types in Chapter 3.) Use the Pencil tool rather than the Brush tool whenever possible. The Pencil tool uses fewer bytes in your movie. Use the Web-safe color palette. Avoid custom colors. (Check out Chapter 3 for the lowdown on colors.) Custom color definitions are kept with the Flash Player file. 286 Part V: The Movie and the Web
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