Re: FLASH: Re: flasher-digest V1 #562

[Marc Hoffman]

At 08:33 AM 11/25/98 -0800, you wrote:

>To all:

>

>I'm curious to hear what the average file size of a flash presentation

>(website) is.  I'm scared that I'm only half way through the design the site

>and I'm already at 200kb.  What gives?

>Arlen Nielsen - Multimedia Designer


I agree with what Jim Curry said about this.  More specifically, you can

try to estimate how long people are spending at your site (for example, is

there text to read, or animations to watch, or interactions to be involved

with).  Multiply bandwidth (at 28k modem speed, if you're designing for

typical users) times the amount of time they'll be visiting, and you'll

have a rough idea how much content you can stream without undue

bottlenecks.  There's also a factor of whether navigation is linear and

predicatable, or whether you need lots of stuff loaded and ready for the

user's whim.  Use your bandwidth profiler (in Test Movie) to identify

bottlenecks and to streamline stuff.  Create diversions or re-order content

so the user is always entertained/enlightened while content is streaming.

Use available time to load movie clips or higher-level movies in the

background (i.e., once loaded have them start in an empty, parked frame

until called to play).  200k is a modest file size for Flash, but it all

depends on how it streams and how much substance is conveyed in that time.




Marc Hoffman

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