Flash Compression

I just started using Flash 3 days ago... (still got 28 days
left.. lol) Any
way I have some compression questions:
I have made a clip of me morphing into my son with another
program, and
exported each frame as a jpg, then I imported jpg's into
flash. I know have
made a flash movie/document that morphs back and forth by
editing each of the
24 frames used me to morph me into my son, then I could not
find a play
backwards command or action so I just copied and pasted the
frames, then
reversed the second set. I am wondering since the asset is
same for two frames
in the file, if flash added the same asset twice wile
compressing the file.
Second question: I have tried every thing I can find inside
of flash to get a
smaller file size. I started out with the defalt jpg
compression set at
something like 80, and moved it to 15 and that didn't do it.
I changed the
quality from high to low and still no change in file size
what so ever.
Thank you for your time,
Eric

From what you're describing I guess you're changing the jpeg
compression in the Publish Settings-Flash dialog box, right? Did
you check whether your jpegs are set to use the default document
compression?
To do this, right-click them in the library and choose
Properties....
Make sure that "Compression: Photo(JPEG)" and "Use document
default quality" are selected.
Good luck
Wolfg

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> Hi Everyone,
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> I have images in photoshop that are exactly 700 X 298
pixels. However, when I
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> X 297.6.
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> I don't understand. I have all my Flash compression set
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> John Bruso
> Web Designer
> Sheridan College
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