Re: FLASH: site setup logic

[John Croteau]

Hi Karen,


> >> I have decided to set it up as one long  movie

> >As long as you make it stream or at least pleasant this is a good idea.

> OK, I take it you are saying I should work with the streaming graph on this

> issue(?) rather than have an animation playing while the movie loads? Is

> the streaming graph trustworthy?

Yes, bandwidth profiler does give a pretty good idea of the streaming.

Generally use the streaming to see how well it streams and switch to

frame by frame to see where you can fix it. The key is to look for

bottlenecks. Peaks on the graph and try to eliminate them or spread them

out.


The animation should start playing while it is still loading.

Flash streams, if you give it a chance. Don't load everything before

starting because Flash can play and load at the same time (this is

streaming). PreLoad enough so that Flash doesn't stop while your

animation is playing because it needs part of the file to load. But

don't preload more than needed.


> >Try to use preloading delays only to help those who get slower connections.

> How do I separate out the people with the fast connections to the slow

> connections?

Try to get the movie to stream at your target audience's speed then use

If Frame is Loaded, if needed, to prevent failures and give additional

content for those on the slower end of your target audience. For

instance, if most of your audience has ISDN or faster make sure it

streams for them, then add preloaders and Wait-for-frame loops (If Frame

is Loaded) for the those who can't (or don't) get a good connection.


Generally it is better to give some extra content or diversion to users

rather than just have them waiting.


> >Use of Labels or putting complete sections in MCs to deliniate sections

> >are 2 good ways to substitute for Scenes.

> So a MC can be quite large then, adding no problems in playback?

The only disadvantage is all of a Movie Clip has to load before any of

it can play. This means putting large MCs at the beginning of a Movie

may make it stream less well, but it also means you may not need a

Wait-for-Frame.


> Also... once again all happening on one timeline. If I have an animation

> that lays out ("unpacks") a section, say when they select the "print"

> button, and all the print work options show. I'd rather that the print

> section just doesn't "disapper" when another section is choosen. So, how do

> I "repack" (reverse) this animation when they select a different section,

> say the interactive section?  Does making the print or interactive animated

> sections separate movie clips help or hinder this in any way?

It would make it easier only if you want to fade or move everything in

the MC at one time, otherwise no diff.


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