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gunthead - 27 Feb 2007 12:08 GMT

Hello.

Forgive me as I'm still new to the world of Flash. I have built my first Flash
based site http://www.gbs-ox.co.uk. I have used simple html pages with a movie
embedded in each (probably not the best way of doing things). Loading time is
fine for the pages with little content, but the movie embedded on the
'projects' page is too large (1.4mb). The client has mentioned the page takes
too long to download on their connection.

I have constructed the 'projects' movie using Scenes. A different scene
represents each sub-section/page: community, education, healthcare and
historic. My question Is this. Is there a way I can export the Scenes seperatly
and have them semlessly link and behave as they are doing at the moment. So I
have four or five small movies instead of one large one.

Can anyone help! Can anyone point me to any good tutorials? I'm using Flash
Pro 8

Thanks in advance

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Mister Peanut - 27 Feb 2007 23:11 GMT

Hello,

if at all possible, you can have larger movies dynamically loaded into your
website if they ar in flv format. From what I know, this format is pretty
economical, but I, too, am relatively new to flash. (I had no problems with
your projects page, by the way, but I have a fast connection). If you go to
gotoandlearn.com, there are excellent tutorials on flv video players. I'm not
sure if you should ever use scenes when building website content. I have had
many problems with them, and prefer to dynamically load each swf as I need them.

To show you flv content, take a look at my new http://www.vanasep.ca. Each
video is around 2mb large, loaded dynamically. If this seems fast enough for
you, maybe using flv format is the way to go.

Hope this helps a little,

P

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gunthead - 28 Feb 2007 09:26 GMT

Hello.

Thanks for all your help. I'm not sure I need to go down the flv route for this project? I was wondering how do you dynamically load multiple swf files?

Regards

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Mister Peanut - 28 Feb 2007 18:03 GMT

What you need to do is make an swf file that contains nothing but a movie clip
(for your Movie Clip just make a square, and place it on the top left corner of
your stage and place it on the x:0,y:0 coordinates)

Give your movie clip an instance name.

Use the following script to load your movie into your movie clip you just
created into frame 1.

Movie_clip_instance_name.loadMovie("YourSWFfile.swf",1);

any additional movie clips you need to load, can be loaded into the
appropriate time on your timeline. Using a "shell" swf file ensures that your
movie clips are loaded as needed. I can't really help you if your buttons that
control your swf file are done in html, otherwise this should work. Let me
know if this makes sense or not, and I will clarify further.

P

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