Hour 21. Minimizing File Size

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

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

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

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