Any advice on optimizing folio size?

We are currently developing a 10-12 article folio with a modest amount of rich media; 2-3 videos, an image sequence and a few MSOs. Nothing compared to what I have seen in magazines I have downloaded that appear to be a fraction of the size (we are currently at about 230mb). Is there a piece to this puzzle that we may be missing?
Thanks in advance

Just to follow up Bob--dropped the suspect article with the web overlay out of the folio and we are still at about 230 mb for a 15 article folio (down from 255). investigated a little further an found an article with a very small amt of extra function is 22mb.
Is there something about vertical stacking articles that eat up a lot of space for ex?
Thanks
Mattias

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Regards
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Reducing folio size

Hi all,
I am struggling to reduce the folio size of an app, and need to better understand why this is. I need to be able to explain to my client why reducing the size of the images has not made a difference - as this logically makes no sense.
I have created renditions for the iPad, Android and iPhone. It is quite an image-heavy folio, so the size for all 3 devices is large (my client has complained that it is too large, as users are expereiencing problems with the download).
I contacted Adobe and was advised to reduce the size of the images for each device. I changed the resolution to 72ppi, and saved for web as jpg with medium/high compression. I also uploaded the folio as PDF, hoping this would keep the size small.
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Image/Video Optimization is all about compromising with logical thinking and testing employed. In both cases - image and video - there is amount of information that is compressed into the file. The more informative (more detailed, larger size) the image is the less it could be compressed and the bigger you will get the file.
If there is a video in the folio then you need to optimize it first as videos are much more hungry for the size.
To make image smaller several things could be done:
- you may choose less informative picture, e.g. empty swimming pool vs crowded one;
- you may crop different/smaller part of the original picture;
- some effects like when one part of the picture focused and the rest is foggy or grainy picture will also reduce the size;
- replace background for less busy one, e.g. put the image behind the window ( the plain wall around the window is not that informative, isn't it? );
- lower the quality of the image until it's on the borderline after which it becomes unacceptable;
- prioritize your images - make some of them smaller pixel wise, some with better quality then the average through the folio and some with less, and some replace with less informative alternative image that could fit for the purpose even better, and some excessively used just delete.
Image is a 3D object as each 2D pixel of it has the 3rd coordinate - color. So the less bits are used to code the color the smaller the image. Also the more areas with the same color the better the compression: if we reduse1000x1000 pixels photo quality image to 500x500 ( 4 times ) and then enlarge it back to 1000x1000 we will get each 1 pixel of 500x transformed to 4 pixels of the same color.
Now you just need to test the settings to get the quality-size borderline for each or most of your images. I would start with the new empty folio and add one of your average images to it - this will allow you to compare size of the optimized image to the size of the folio file and get the idea of the folio format overhead and possible transformation to the image. You may also look into article's articlename.folio file - it's just a plain zip file with all the images inside, so rename it to articlename.folio.zip and open.
Here you can also read Google's recommendations:
https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-images
Plus as always you may search DPS/web for more info.

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Firstly, uninstall any anti-malware software. It isn't needed and could cause your problem. Also, avoid using Chrome which can also cause problems. Never use more than one browser at a time. Using three is asking for disaster.
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NEED THE BEST QUALITY QUICKTIME MOVIE FOR DVD! THANKS FOR ANY ADVICE.

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I usually just output a self-contained quicktime movie with current settings and then compress with bitvice.
That will provide the best quality ... the quality won't improve over what you had in FCP. Depending on your source media type(s), you may have had a better quality export IF you had edited and rendered with another setting.
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Hello, I have another question.
I'm building an article with multiple pages, that's fairly asset heavy. There are seven pages, and each has an MSO with between 6-10 states, containing an almost full-page image in each state. We've reduced the size of each image to around 100KB, so each page should only weigh about 1MB. For some reason, when I'm building the folio, each page adds about 10MB to the folio size. The entire article ends up being almost 100MB! I was expecting it to be on the heavier size, but ten times what I expected was a bit of a shock!
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Hello,
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Anything over 5% particularly if over 500kbps is likely to be causing problems.
You could try limiting the Bandwidth (iChat Menu > Preferences > Video section) to 500kbps at both ends
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Why does folio size remain same when images are sized down?

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Can you make a folio size of 1000 x 750 for iPad?

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It appears that ipad doesn't want to load that size. So to make my android users happy I am going to have to make a 4th folio size. ugh!

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Someone who have advice for a folio production in many languages

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As I am watching your tutorial, I am thinking about how I will receive the footage.
The Cameraman will be transferring the files to a Mini USB HD and Fedexing to me Overnight...
Which I will proceed to copy to a FW harddrive.
Should I have them first re-format the USB HD (it's brand new)?
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