Movie Clip or Graphic?

[HitchhikerClock]

Usually I only use graphics for one frame things

[TruncheonClock]

Movie clips

[patriotclock]

Movie Clip. I never used Graphic ever.

[CubeMelonClock]

YOU SHOULD DO WHAT I DO

YOU SHOULD FUCKING DO WHAT I DO

DO WHAT I DO YOU COCKFAG NOGOOD MOTHERFUCKERS

FUCK OFF, ONLY I KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER, SO DO WHAT I DO, YOU SHOULD DO WHAT I FUCKING DO

WHAT I DO IS RIGHT SO FUCKING DO IT AND STOP FUCKING UP YOU FUCK UP

[Flounderpa]

MOstly Movieclips, graphics when I need to sync something

[ToyotaClock]

if you are against one or the other you are a faggot because they both have their unique uses

[LoquatClock]

I still don't understand why you can't just use a one frame Movieclip instead of a graphic

Because then you can't select the animation as a whole and scale it/move it about.
 
 GRAPHIC FTW.

What the hell are you talking about? Yes you can. How are you going about selecting the whole movie in such a way that it doesn't work on movieclips? I couldn't fuck up like that if I TRIED.

You guys keep saying shit like this but it's not making sense. Are you guys talking about making your whole movie inside of a movieclip or something stupid like that?

LOL.

What the hell am I talking about? Haha. Yeah, when you suggest making a movie using one frame movie clips instead of a graphic? Do you even know what a fucking graphic is?

[TequilaClock]

Movie clips.

[BootClock]

MovieClips have a higher filesize than a graphic because the movie clip class has more properties than the graphics class, a movieclip has all the data the main timeline has (which incidently is a member of the movieclip class).

Also if your only reason for using graphics is so you can see it on the main timeline, there are extensions you can get that will allow you to see the position of a movieclip at any given time. The only reason it's not inbuilt into flash is because it's reasonably impractical because a lot of the time people using movieclips are unlikely to keep them linear.

[RomanClock]

So I did some tests on filesize between movieclip and graphic:
Test Vector: A black brush circle with a rainbow filling
Main timeline has 1 frame and does not change
600x400 pixels 30 fps
A blank FLA is 20,992 bytes
Flash 8 (using save and compact)

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Test 1: Single instance
Result:
Movieclip
FLA 32,768 bytes / 11,776 bytes
SWF 1,242 bytes

Graphic
FLA 32,256 bytes / 11,264 bytes
SWF 1,230 bytes

Conclusion:
FLA: Graphic is smaller with difference of 512 bytes (95.7% of movieclip)
SWF: Graphic is smaller with difference of 12 bytes (99% of movieclip)[negligible]
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Test 2: Two instances (copies on stage)
Result:
Movieclip
FLA 33,280 bytes / 12,288 bytes (Up 512 bytes from Test 1)
SWF 1,252 bytes

Graphic
FLA 32,256 bytes / 11,264 bytes (No size change apparent)
SWF 1,239 bytes

Conclusion:
FLA: Graphics are smaller with difference of 1,023 bytes (91.6% of movieclips)
SWF: Graphic is smaller with difference of 13 bytes (98.9% of movieclip)[negligible]

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Test 3: 64 instances (copies on stage)
Result:
Movieclip
FLA 57,344 bytes / 36,352 bytes (Up 24,064 bytes from Test 2)
SWF: 1,693 bytes

Graphic
FLA 37,376 bytes / 16,384 bytes (Up 5,120 bytes from Test 2)
SWF: 1,679 bytes

Conclusion:
FLA: Graphics are smaller with difference of 19,968 bytes (45% of movieclips)
SWF: Graphic is smaller with difference of 13 bytes (99.1% of movieclip)[negligible]

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Final Conclusion:
Using graphics will probably save space for an FLA, but has a negligible affect on the filesize of an SWF. Only other differences are graphics can have frames inside of it and can be seen in sync with the main timeline (unconfirmed for movieclips), but have no other properties in Flash (like normal vectors).