I've come across a situation with flash, which has our team really stuck. Our end products looks like this. Its an 2 metre interactive rear projected touch screen which uses lasers to trigger flashMX full screen video content.

We have a P4 running 80mbs SCSI HDD, but our video seems to run slow, chunk up badly. We recorded the footage using DVcam. Each video is around 3-5 minutes long. Converted from DV to flash.

The resolution/frame rate of the flash movie is 800x600/ 20FPS. The swf runs of these HDD drives. Not off high speed CD or a dsl.

As a whole process, or production exercise, from capture to viewing what would be recommended.

1/ Avoid resizing the DV video (768x548) to fill the 800x600 (will non 4:3 aspect ratio slow algorithms down)

2/ try and match the frame rate of video before importing into flash (how important is frame rate sync?)

3/ Save as mov, and link, or import/export & use flv

4/ Drop the frame rate of everything to 15fps

5/ Increase the buffer beyong 500kbs (does soronsen spark & wildform offer/ do this with great results)

Any hints would be grand.