are the zoom videos flv's ? are they being loaded dynamically or are the embedded in a symbol on the timeline ? what are your compression settings ? what are the frame rates and duration ? also something to consider is degrading the quality of the start and end images , to match the quality of a lighter weight video. Then you can you creatively use blur and motion blur to take attention away from banding , artifacting , or weird aliasing your start and end images have.
also im thinking , a zoom in , even with some easing , shouldn't really take more then a second . so if you have a fairly standard frame rate , like 30 fps per second , if you create 5 bitmaps of the zoom sequence at increasing levels , and actually you have a start already being the satellite image , and an end image, so really you would only need 3 bitmaps of the in between states of the zoom sequence. Then just do a cascading scale of the five images. You could then adjust the compression setting from your flash library , because the 3 in between bitmaps are in motion , so they dont have to be high res. I think you could achieve a convincing effect for less than myabe 150 k . Or at the absolute least , less then one meg. I guess it all really depends on how you break apart your assets.
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