I am going crazy trying to figure out what is wrong with my course. I can't seem to find any SPECIFIC guidelines for what is a normal file size. It is normal for articulate file to be 20 MB when it has 5 slides with narration, photos and a few limited animations? My course was 287MB and I broke it into 12 sections. Each section is still really large with no videos or engage interactions.
Is there someone local to the Sacramento or Sierra Foothills who could actually talk with me?
Thanks Phil. I am publishing to an LMS. I have used photos with reduced file size. What is "a piece of string?" What would be considered "long" narration? I would say the average is 45 seconds - 1.5 minutes per slide. Is that "long?"
I am having this same issue. I have a 46 slide course and a handful of the slides produce enormous SWFs when I publish. I've never seen this happen before. The only thing on them is text and images. I have tried scaling down the images to no avail. They aren't large in size and there's no video or anything else that I can think of that might make these screens large.
I had several PowerPoint shapes filled with .png images covering my slides. When I replaced the filled shapes with straight images, this reduced the sizes of my .swf files signifcantly. In one case, the .swf for a slide was reduced from 8.8MB to 1.5MB.
I'm not really sure why this makes a difference, but that was definitely my issue.
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Hi Fawn are you publishing to CD? Filesizes for publish to CD are often large, publish to web will reduce your file size.
With ereference to your 5 slides it really is how long is a piece of string, how long is the narration, what size were the photos you inserted,
Happy to help, although not local
Thanks Phil. I am publishing to an LMS. I have used photos with reduced file size. What is "a piece of string?" What would be considered "long" narration? I would say the average is 45 seconds - 1.5 minutes per slide. Is that "long?"
Fawn
I am having this same issue. I have a 46 slide course and a handful of the slides produce enormous SWFs when I publish. I've never seen this happen before. The only thing on them is text and images. I have tried scaling down the images to no avail. They aren't large in size and there's no video or anything else that I can think of that might make these screens large.
Hey Brian!
If you'd like, you can submit a case to our support team. They might be able to help you pinpoint the reason for the large file size. Thanks!
I believe I discovered the issue with my course.
I had several PowerPoint shapes filled with .png images covering my slides. When I replaced the filled shapes with straight images, this reduced the sizes of my .swf files signifcantly. In one case, the .swf for a slide was reduced from 8.8MB to 1.5MB.
I'm not really sure why this makes a difference, but that was definitely my issue.
Glad to hear you got it resolved, Bryan, and thanks for sharing what worked!
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