Chapter 22. Minimizing File Size

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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS HOUR:

  • How to reduce the file size of a movie without affecting quality

  • How to use the Bandwidth Profiler to quantify the file size savings

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By now, you can draw, animate, and design a site that’s both interesting to look at and easy to use. You can run either Test Movie or Publish Preview to get an accurate idea of how a movie plays, but you have to actually upload the files to a web sever to see how it behaves over the Internet. You see in this hour that you can use the Simulate Download feature as a quick preview of how your movie plays for users on different connection speeds.

However, there can still be a marked difference between how a movie plays on ...

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