hi, i've got a little free webspace though my isp and i've got a few flash animations ive made and would like to put them on. they are in hte .SWF format but are quite large. is there a way of "compressing" them. ive tried a few programs but they dont really compress it at all if any if even possible. would i have to decopile it back to .fla? sorry if im talking rubbish. thanks

many things you can do one...cut down the size of imported pictures by compresing them before importing into flash two....think! three....repeat step two four.....flash reprocesses pictures (objects) rasterized or not....vector or jpg within your file when playing back as a swf. that's what makes flash flash. Flash plays back a small file of goto's, movements, colorizations and whatever makes your swf your swf. Think of it this way...You put all the pieces of what is in your swf into a box. Throw in the code (what you did in flash) (REMEBER) the code is what makes flash Flash Like a keyStroke recal program. THe file would be huge if you had to stuff the typer along with the tiny kilobyte file to get back the typing. does this make sense? Back to the swf file (Box) Shake well. And look in the box (your swf) and watch it play through. So the less pieces you put into the box. The lighter the box (size of swf) will be. In a nut shell. Your mind is part of keeping your swf file along with Flashes compresion algorythms, at a reasonable size. Mark Soundcraft