QUESTION: How to make swf download time faster?

[sineadhartley]

Hi there people
am hoping someone can help me out. I have a swf file of size 309k and am now running into problems with download times. For obvious reasons when I download using a DSL connection then its fast. But the majority of people who will be viewing the swf on the Internet will have a 56K modem connection. Really need some help!!
Thanks in advance
:confused:

[CyanBlue]

Howdy... :)

Um... I know it should sound dumb, but here is my answer...

Make the size of the SWF file smaller...

In other words, change the resolution/quality of the image file smaller to reduce the size... Divide the files into sections and make multiple SWF files instead of one huge SWF file... :)

[monkeybrainz]

'nother thing that surprises people: if you have any bitmaps you've traced to vector - they can really bloat the size of your file! becare mindful to use the lowest quality you can get away with. and if you're using a fixed size swf movie sometimes it's better to use a jpg/gif that you've shrunk w/ your image editor...

edit -> doh i meant png's heh!! as nam pointed out :D

my 2cents
- monkeybrainz

[nam]

uummmm....
i suggest u do what im doung:
im using only PNG images (of course) and they weight is not big at all...
and im importing WAV files and saves them as ADPCM's best quality and then sound just great and weight not so much....:)

oh! and the server is very important! it is really good to upload ur movie to a server that they can download it faster then 40k.... cuz there are lots of uploads sites that let u do download on 10k max! :(

and search the TUTORIALS section for a script of how to load from one SWF movie another SWF movie so u can put loader in each part of ur movie... i mean that it will do 10 loading t the movie, it wont load all of the bytes on the start :) it will load one swf that weight 1 mega and then it will load another that weight 1.2 mega (after the end of the scene :))...
ill give u the link and ull understand what am i talking about :D

[sineadhartley]

Hi guys, thanks a million for the help. Am gonna have to break up the swf into lots of smaller swfs and put preloaders on all. Its 408k at the moment and i am not sure whats makin it so big! So, nam can you give me the link you were talkin about above? That would be great!