RE: FLASH: Multiple movies vs. One big movie?

[Brack, Jeremy]

if your users are on 56k modems, you may want to break out the website into

seperate smaller chunks.  They will be able to get what they need faster,

rather than waiting like say 2 or 3 minutes for all 5 links to download at

once.


If your users are on broadband (cable, T1, DSL), then making 1 large

download wont be a problem.  These high bandwidth users wont get any delay

getting into any section of the site since it will be all loaded as one

chunk.


Unless your making a CD-ROM based movie, it might be safer to break the site

up into smaller chunks.  The small chunks will download very fast on

broadband, and perhaps acceptable on 56k connections.

This could save you design time by allowing more than 1 designer to work

simultaneously (each designer building 1 section of the site).  Well if you

have Flash 5, then that wouldnt be a problem I guess since F5 supports some

networking/template sharing abilities.


-----Original Message-----

From: Seth Newton [

newton_sethkeithley [dot] com (mailto:newton_sethkeithley [dot] com)

]

Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 1:55 PM

To:

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Subject: FLASH: Multiple movies vs. One big movie?



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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