Flash presentation
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I've done a bunch of long flash presentations, exactly like what you want to do, and here is what advice I can give you.
1. You MUST use loadMovie for two important reasons. One: to split up what is going to be a huge (file size) movie into digestable chunks. Two: if you try to load 20 minutes of uncompressed audio into flash it will crash. And it should be uncompressed, you compress it in flash.
2. Split up the audio into small chunks. If the chunks are too long with a lot of animation the sync can get off. Your best bet is to add actions to the end of each chunk of audio that matches up the audio and motion so that you are esentially re-checking the sync every so often.
3. Set the audio to "stream" inside flash so that you can scrub through the audio and time the animation to it.
4. At least as of Director 8.5 (haven't tried MX) if you load long Flash movies with audio into Director they WILL NOT stay in sync. You must use actionscript to resync. More trouble than it's worth unless you must use director.
Hope this helps.