FLASH: Multiple movies vs. One big movie?

[Seth Newton]

Hello all,

    I have a project that I'm designing which will have 5 main links once it

gets past the introduction screen.  I believe that it would be best to

create a separate movie for each link, and use the "Load Movie" command to

load the movie for that particular link at the time the user clicks on it.

Yet, my favorite Flash sites have everything download in a big chunk......is

there an advantage to that?  The structure would be an introduction which

would take approximately 20 seconds long, and then it would go into the

navigation screen where the 5 main links are at.  If I chose to let users

download all of them at once, I would have to be careful about allowing them

to choose the link to the last downloaded portion in the navigation screen.

However, if I used separate movies, the biggest one being approximately 150k

in size, then I could just allow them to download the movies as they need

them.  Development time is an issue in this as well.

    So now that I've given you my situation....  I'm asking opinions on how

you would tackle this project.  Multiple Movies downloaded separately?  Or

One Big Chunk with a pre-loading element involved?


Thanks for taking the time to read this,


-Seth.


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