Publish Quality

My goal is to reduce the file size.

Hi Chayse,

Just to make sure, you did step 4 of the thread below.

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/publishing-a-project-for-web.aspx

Thanks,

Adrian

Thanks for the reply, Adrian.  Yes, I preformed that step by moving all the slider to the far left and the file size was the same as when I used the standard settings.

Hi Chayse,

When you publish the file at the lower quality, do you notice a difference in the quality from that of the standard quality when you view it?

Adrian

Yes, I can see a difference.  This is very strange.

Hi Chayse,

OK. I am going to try the same thing with a file of mine and see if they stay the same file size or not.

Will get back to you.

Adrian

OK, Chayse, here is a Screenr video of me changing the quality settings for one slide with a video, doing both a high quality version and a low quality version. The file sizes were in fact different as the video shows.

Take a look, and maybe shoot a Screenr video of what you do, and we'll go from there.

Adrian

Thank you!

Hi Chayse,

I am here to help. It was no problem.

Adrian

Okay,  I gave it a shot again.  This time I did what you showed in the video (thanks for recording one by the way) and published one file with the "sliders" set all the way to the right and one with the "sliders" set all the way to the left.  The file size was different, but not by much: 29.1 MB vs. 29.2 MB.  I guess I was expecting there to be a larger difference in file size.  Any other suggestion on reducing the file size with the content I have already recorded?

Hi Chayse,

Are you wanting to save memory on file size because of storage, or because you are trying to share the whole file with someone else and want to save them the trouble of downloading a big file?

If you are looking at storage for long term purposes, you could compress it into a zip file using 7zip, WinZip, WinRar, etc.

If you are uploading the file to the web for someone to view, 29.2 MB isn't that much to me at least.

Adrian

Hi Adrian,

First of all, thanks for all of your help!  Yes, it's a storage issue. I'll look into the compression options you've pointed out.  Thanks again.

Chayse,

Keep in mind that when you create a zip file, you will have to unzip that file in order to use it. That means that while it's in the zip it will be compressed but when unzipped it will go back to the way it was before.

You can only compress a file so much, and sometimes it won't be what you expected when it comes to file size.

7zip is a free program. WinZip and WinRAR have free trials. There are other programs out there as well.

The below should give you an idea.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm

Adrian