Breaking a large project into pieces

Long time user, first time poster.
We have created a long movie (310 slides) and current any
operation is quite sluggish which I learned recently is expected (I
saw in the Export forum that avg expected size is between 60-70
slides? Woops)
I was curious if there is a good way to break this movie into
pieces and keep the cohesion? The way the movie is laid out now is
it starts off with a Title slide showing the 5 things we are going
to talk about, then talks about them in that order with very clear
start/end slides to each of the 5 sections... so I think it would
lend itself well to being broken into portions.
Also on the bottom of *every* slide are Jump-To links
(buttons) to the other sections so if you are getting bored, you
can skip ahead or backward.
So what I'm asking is there a way to break a movie into say 5
pieces (5 separate files) while still keeping them linked together
sufficiently well that you can sit and watch the entire thing play
through from start to finish and jump around between the files, or
is that only going to happen with a single giant movie?
Thank you for the help.
Best,
Riyad

Hi Riyad,
We are breaking our training videos up as well, but not
because of size. We are trying to make tiny videos so that they are
very easily updateable if our product changes (which it does). What
I did was this:
1. I created a template for Captivate (you can dowload some
sweet ones on the Exchange Adobe site). Where I created a menu
structure on the left hand side.
2. Next, I created a new captivate video for each small chunk
I wanted to display (ten in all). I kept these brief (under 5
minutes in lenght and by subject). Hopefully, your video can easily
be parsed by topic. For example, Introduction to Widgets, Why
Widgets, How to Buy Widgets, etc. I published these in the normal
way (SWF files for me).
3. Next, I created a new captivate video using the template I
created in step 1. This is the main project that will call all the
other projects. IMPORTANT - you must change the options for all
elements on your page to run the entire length of the slide and you
must also change your slide length to the maximum (I believe it's
600 or 3600 seconds).
4. In the left hand menu structure, I created transparent
text boxes with my menu titles (Introduction to Widgets, What are
Widgets, Buying Widgets, etc.) and then I created a click box over
each of these. The click box action jumps to the appropriate slide
that corresponds to the video I want to display.
5. On the first slide I have a Welcome page that's just text
explaining how to use the menu structure on the left, the intended
audience, the length of the entire class, etc.
6. On the 2nd slide, I copy the menu structure from the first
slide text and click boxes and paste them here. I also insert an
Animation and choose my SWF file. Resize so it will fit in the
screen appropriately.
7. I do the same thing for the remaining slides.
8. Next, I publish the file and voila! I have a master
project that calls mini projects.

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