Why am I getting a error message when I try to publish a file in Macromedia Flash?

March 28, 2006 6:45 PM

Flash 8 Issue I am having problem publishing my flash file.

Flash 8 Issue

Is there a maximum file size for flash files?

I am having problem publishing my flash file. The .fla file is 85 MB. It contains images & sound. There are no movie files. The sound files have all been converted to .mp3 files and are not large in size. The image files are all around 1 mb or smaller. There is probably 30 – 40 images. I can save the file and open the .fls file just fine. It’s not slow or anything like that. I can preview each scene with no problems but going to “Control – Test Scene”. When I go to publish the file and an exe it take a long time to publish. After about an hour I get an error message that says “not enough memory”. I have no idea why and have tried to publish on 3 machines. They all have 1 gig memory and good processors. I designed it in Flash 8 on a new Dell laptop. I have never had this problem before can anyone help? I need to know why its taking so long to publish and what to do.

posted by lane73179 to computers & internet (7 comments total)

85 MB seems huge for one flash file. The .swf file you get from "test scene" usually ends up being much more compressed, and that's the one that gets published online.

Really, I'm trying to wrap my head around how you ended up with such a big file. I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish in flash, so I can't tell you how to make it smaller.

Check out flashkit and kirupa for better advice and tutorials.
posted by idiotfactory at 7:11 PM on March 28, 2006

A workaround might be to break it up into separate files and do loadmovie.
posted by juv3nal at 7:28 PM on March 28, 2006

If there are 35 images at roughly a meg each, that's 35MB.

So that leaves the MP3 files for the remaning 50MB.

Do you have fifty minutes of audio? Because MP3 ought to be roughly a meg a minute.

If not, something's wrong somewhere. And yes 85MB is enormous for a file to go on the web. Someone on dialup would require an entire day to download it, if I'm calculating correctly.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 7:47 PM on March 28, 2006

im making a cd brochure for a roofing company - the mp3 files together total about 7 meg. is there a way to reduce the images without having to make the resolution smaller in photoshop and then re-import them?
posted by lane73179 at 8:22 PM on March 28, 2006

You probably need to treat your mp3s and images as external resources, and call them from within the flash applet using loadMovie().
posted by ook at 8:36 PM on March 28, 2006

whoops, just noticed juv3nal already gave that answer.
posted by ook at 8:38 PM on March 28, 2006

is there a way to reduce the images without having to make the resolution smaller in photoshop and then re-import them?

So, the images aren't 1MB each? They're bigger?

If your images are just going to be seen on computer screens you can reduce their resolution to 72 dpi.
posted by AmbroseChapel at 8:46 PM on March 28, 2006