Preloading?

[trick29392]

Well I made a very good vid, but its a big file and it takes a while to load. In the meantime, there is a black screen. Can anyone tell me how to create some kind of loading bar that would at least show loading progress while everything downloads? Or maybe how to make the file smaller? Thanks guys

 

[jazz88]

for preloader you can go to

http://www.flashbax.com

there's a good tutorial on that.
If you want to reduce the file size there is a third party program called
Sorenson Squeeze that does that. It is quite expensive though. Other options would be: edit your video, make it shorter.

 

[oldnewbie]

...for preloader you can go to

http://www.flashbax.com

there's a good tutorial on that...

IMHO, that's not a very good tutorial (as most of Iaskwhy's tutorials!) who is a moderator on FK, and most probably the one that got me banned, precisely because I often contradicted his incomplete, biased, or most often simply bad answers...

I suggest you try this one...

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/percentagepreloader.htm

Or one of mine, a seperate new preloader only movie, which will load your present movie (or any other future movie with components and/or linked movie clips or sounds...), cleared of it's own preloader...

http://odin.prohosting.com/oldnew/preloader/preload.htm

http://odin.prohosting.com/oldnew/preloader/preload.zip

As for your embedded video, hope you've reduced the import quality by at least 5% (to 95%, 90% or even lower...), which should dramitically reduce your file's size...
Never leave it at 100%!



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[jazz88]

just curious, why do you think it's not good ?

 

[oldnewbie]

I'm not saying that it ain't good... Just that there are better ones!
And I dislike this guy!

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