8 videos in one captivate 7 project?

Hello,
my customer would like 8 standard-definition 4-6 minute videos shot with 5 questions or so after each video to test if the learner understood what was explained. This project is to be later uploaded onto Skillport, an LMS. Could anyone inform me of the practicality of this? Is that doable or would the Captivate file explode due to its size? : )
Thanks for any advice! Ryan

I have 5 event videos in one Captivate project -- each 4 - 12 MB -- and I publshed the project to my desktop as a .swf file to test it. I got a screwy result.
The project consists of 5 slides, each with an event video. In the published playback, pushing play on the event video in the first slide (not the project play bar, but the video play bar) does not play the 1st event video like you might expect, but advances you to the next slide. When you then press play on the 2nd slides video (not Captivate playbar, but video playbar) , you are advanced to the third slide, and so on until you get to the fifth and final slide. On the fifth slide, when you press the event video's play button the first time, nothing happens. On the second push, a video finally starts, but it's actually the video on the first slide. It seems to play without problem...
Any thoughts on alleviating this problem?
I also considered something like <iframes> tags on each slide, and just uploading the videos onto YouTube, but I dont think you can imbed iframe tags into Flash file...

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4views wrote:
> Thanks Rick for another prompt reply. Unfortunately no
quick fix so far on
> this one. We have used AVI Video Converter to save a swf
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> can place in to Captivate and it plays just fine in the
edit screen. However,
> when we preview the movie, the video portion cannot be
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> ...the desktop appears for a second or
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