flash movie sizes..
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- scpgt
what's an acceptable amount of time to wait for a flash movie to download nowadays ( / how big a file)..?
bearing in mind that it's an essential part of the site, but not massively essential for it to be at a super high quality.. tho' it would be nice.
- fusionpixel0
it all has to do with your target audience. if you ask a bunch of designers behind a t3 pipe line who are used to download 5MB sites to those who only do HTML and are used to faster renders and hate to wait you will get different answers so.. whats your target audience?
- UndoUndo0
cant you vbreak the movie down into smaller swfs which are loaded only as and when needed?
same experience but spread the download on demand?
- Timson0
also what sort of content is loading... music, video, text?
- scpgt0
too true.
my bad.although it probably is aimed at designy types.. and students.. 16-20-odd.. not seasoned flashtastic viewers, but more than used to browsing randomly.
sorry.
i'm so vague. :-)
- UndoUndo0
yeah if its sounds or video files you can look at progressive downloads or streaming making the experience a bit qu
icker
- scpgt0
oh, and there are several swfs.. some of which are nice and small (50kb ish) but they load other swfs as and when, some of which are nearer 1mb. they show some video/sound and fancy transitions..
i can get it down to about 600kb but am slightly worried that that's still rather large..
- kon230
if its for viewers who are browsing randomly then forget about them waiting for a large download.
unless theres a good teaser as it loads or things look 'promising' to a viewer, then they aint going to hang about long.
fair enough if it was a big download size on a site like Nike or BMW etc - people ARE going to hang about as they know the outcome will be worth waiting for.
People deside within the first few seconds of opening a page whether they are going to hang around and whether they are interested in the site/content.
so do something to grab their attention in the loader if its a phat file you are loading in.
- kon230
or like someone said, load in the elements individually if you can .
.ie
....loading graphics ....
....loading sound ....
....loading video content ....each with seperate status bars and something to do or look at while you wait too
- derek20050
stream that shit
- scpgt0
nice points. well made.
i was more enquiring if there's any size which is considered as the limit for a single flash movie download but you're all right.. audience/context/ways around it etc..
ta kindly...