Nowadays, the Flash technology is omnipresent. It is used to develop appealing interactive websites, animated videos and cartoons, and annoying advertising banners. The range of application of this tool is vast. Yet far from all programmers who use Flash have given though to such a banal thing as optimization. As a result, web projects turnout immeasurably heavy and take a lot of time to load in a browser.
Of course, one can return to the sources, weed out trash from the code, manually downgrade image quality, recompress music at a lower bit rate, and recompile all SWF files of the project. It will take quite an amount of time to perform all of the foregoing operations. In the absence of time, it would be more effective to entrust all Flash optimization actions to the Flash Optimizer software by the German company Eltima Software.
Both novices and advanced web programmers will find it easy to use Flash Optimizer. The former can use pre-saved presets with different program algorithms. The latter are offered five dozen lite settings for SWF file optimization.
The application supports the processing of both separate Flash videos and file groups. Each processed object is provided with a detailed report on operations performed and optimization results. If necessary, the application enables a frame-by-frame comparison of the original video with the file processed by Flash Optimizer. Changes can also be rolled back and repeated with other settings.
The Flash optimizer reviewed by us works under any Windows version. The setup file occupies 2.5 megabytes. It has been translated into multiple languages, Russian included, and costs 100 dollars for a personal version. It may seem expensive, but if you take into account the value of products replaced by the application, the price for which the developers are selling Flash Optimizer will seem quite fair.