Flash video sizes

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Hey guys,

I wish to incorporate video into my flash movie and I haven’t done it before. I have a video which maybe lasts for around 10 seconds, it is a small resolution because this video will be in the nav bar so its maybe only 200x400 px. Anyway, I have compressed it and the best I can get it is around 1Mb. Is this an acceptable size?

Thanks

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You should be able to compress that to a 300kbps h.264 file = ~ 400k

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Hey thanks, but I’m really new to this, do you mean compress it with flash on finalizing the movie or compress it with another package? I a have AVS and Adobe Media Encoder, is there some sort of compression approximation equation that no one has told me about?
thanks
Will

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You should be able to encode using media encoder, the container it will output using the h.264 codec is .f4v
There’s not really any compression approximation equation as such, just experience in encoding lots of video gives an idea of what’s possible.

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Thanks for the advice, I have been playing around and to be honest, the smallest file sizes are when I change the format from .f4v to .flv, I don’t know why this is but I will keep playing around.

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It’ll just be the default settings - you need to tweak the parameters.
.flv has either the sorenson spark h263 codec (now obsolete needs ~2-3x the bandwidth for the same quality) or the on2 vp6 codec (needs generally ~ 1.3x the bandwidth) compared to h.264

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Thanks very much thats great help :slight_smile: