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

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

lane73179 — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:45:05 -0800

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.

By: idiotfactory

idiotfactory — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:11:45 -0800

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.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:28:18 -0800

A workaround might be to break it up into separate files and do loadmovie.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:47:18 -0800

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.

By: lane73179

lane73179 — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:22:08 -0800

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?

By: ook

ook — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:36:49 -0800

You probably need to treat your mp3s and images as external resources, and call them from within the flash applet using loadMovie().

By: ook

ook — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:38:43 -0800

whoops, just noticed juv3nal already gave that answer.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:46:27 -0800

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.