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Flash Site Load Time
hey, i'm fairly new to flash.
But i made a flash site.
http://www.freewebs.com/redemptionskateteam/
And well i have a lot of videos and stuff to load, so i put a preloader on, but for some reason it takes FOREVER for most computers to load.
anything that i can do? besides get rid of all my stuff?
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Ivor1
Make sure you have the export in first frame box in Linkage (accessed by right-clicking on an item in your library) unchecked. Also, use a loadMovie action- Google for tutorials- to load external swfs for the videos and pictures, in fact, you could do this for each page. The idea is to split your movie up into smaller swfs so loading time doesn't become an issue. I was able to make a cup of tea and drink it by the time your site came down and I have broadband. You could also use wav. format files for the sounds as MP3s incur larger file sizes.
Good luck.
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ok what if I would..
Split up some of pages onto different scenes and have a preloader for each scene?
Hm. That wouldn't work.
I just can't quite figure out that loadMovie command, just doesn't make sense to me, and yeah i did google it >_<
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It seems like you are embedding all of your sound and video in the main file, in which case it all needs to be loaded at the beginning.
For sound, try to use the sound object to control when you load the sound file into the movie. For video, try to use the media player component and if you can, format your videos as FLV files.
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A preloader doesn't make a Flash movie load faster, it just shows a visual representation of the loading.
The load movie command is quite simple if you use the ActionScript wizard in Flash. The easiest thing to do is creat an empty movie clip (Ctrl+F8, then dont put anything in it). Drag this movie clip to the stage where you need the external content. Give the movie clip an instance name. Then the code is:
Code:
loadMovie("URL of external swf", "movie clip instance name");
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