Is this true?

Hey guys

I've been asked to pop in here and talk about Optimaze, I've just finished a review of it (Click here to read) - I'm gonna get SHOT for putting that link there .. I just know it.

Optimaze is very powerful. And Yes someone here mentioned you can "optimize" your files in Flash. We did some testing, took a 200kb Plasma file, optimized it with flash to 165kb, ran it through optimaze and hit 114kb and because it was animation.. pushed it a pit more and got it down to 96kb!!!

It's really simple, VERY powerful and works with Flash 3, 4, 5 and MX along with ANY SWF exported from Freehand Illustrator etc etc etc.

Flash MX uses Z-Lib compression, Optimaze takes that and crushes it even more.

Check out the review (Click here to read) .... We've some examples up there that show it working on normal files we worked up.

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Originally posted by rugbystud

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Originally posted by Fadzter
i think it's just a quality reducer

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Well, thats what they've done then! ;)

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the point of it is you have complete control of quality vs. filesize.

if you like you can make an analogy with bitmap graphics.
BMP : huge files, full quality
JPG : the more you compress the worse the quality.

if you zoom in you can see changes, but if your content plays back at a certain size you compress it to account for that.

if it plays back real small, you can compress it really hard, if not, dont compress it so much.

easy. :)

Hi All,

After thinking about it for a while, I bought Optimaze last week, turns out I'm pleased I did.

I'm used to importing all my graphics and then going through the animation, breaking it apart, onion skinning and optimising all the frames (which usually have to be done in sections) before publishing. I've got pretty good at this so was kinda sceptical about the claims... but seriously, this thing is cool, it does it all on the fly, without having to worry about onion skinning, and it's way faster than flash.

Running it on some older stuff Ive got, which I thought id done a pretty good job on, knocked another 30-40% or so off most of them, and im not going to miss going through the whole optimising rigmarole within flash.

I haven't had time to really play with the effects or anything yet, but if you work with vectors id recommend it.

laters

KP.