User Guide

468 Chapter 23: Packaging Movies for Distribution
Looped sounds don’t loop in a movie that you have exported as a digital video. To loop a sound
in a movie that you plan to export as a digital video, you must trigger the sound by alternating
it between the two sound channels.
About organizing movie files
In most cases, you should divide a large production into a series of smaller movies. You can
combine as many movies as you want in a projector, but larger files take longer to save and are
cumbersome to work with. Also, movies are easier to edit if they are organized in discrete sections.
The best way to organize a large production is to create a small projector file that starts the movie
and then branches to Shockwave content or protected content. This saves you the trouble of re-
creating the projector every time you change one part of a movie.
A typical file organization for a distributed movie
This approach also makes sense for movies on the Internet, but for different reasons. If the first
movie is small, users don’t have to wait as long for something to happen. Branching to a series
of smaller movies also enables users to avoid downloading time for parts of the movie they do
not use.
The size of your movie may be less of an issue if you use streaming Shockwave content. For more
information, see “Setting movie playback options” on page 471.
Folders for linked media
Projector
External castProtected movies