This is ONLY an issue during authoring.
During Import Director expands the bits for use on stage & in the paint window & to create thumbnails for the cast & PI. This makes the .DIR file grow significantly since JPEG is significant compression.
When you publish or create projector), either the original JPEG bits are used (when you make a DCR, or a projector w/Shockwave compression checked) or the bitmap gets stored in Director's standard compressed form (if you made a 'regular' projector).
Either way, you'll see a significant reduction in your output file.
hth -Buzz
At 2:37 PM +0100 3/26/03, you wrote:
Quick simple question that is bugging me, I have a series of Jpg images that in the windows folder register as being 12k in size the biggest ones being 96k.
When I import them into Director each of the images shoot up to a massive 1.8mb in size? I wonder why it does that? Does it convert the jpg's from a compressed format to a bitmap or something???
see above
I chop down most of the images but the whole series of images is weighing in at 15mb currently. I can't have it being that size I need to get the image size down to more like the original size of the jpgs as I need the images to 'quickly' preload off cdrom (2/3mb)
publish/create projector & see what you get
Has anyone else experienced this issue and do you know what I could do about it? Should I be using different image formats, different bit settings, more compression in the orignal images?
Please let me know, it would be very helpful,
thanx
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