Compressing movie for the web

Hello All!
Im fairly new to director but have lots of experience with flash. Hope it will become handy
I have eLearning movie that I plan to distribute over the internet but the published dcr is 22mb which is not ideal for preloading. I guess that I need to optimize all the images and audio files inside the movie. My target file size is about 3 to 5mb.
I have some questions, ill be glad to get some inputs
1. as I understand I can compress individual images using director or using external editor (like fireworks). Which way is the preferred one?
2. Since I have hundreds of images to optimize I wonder if there is any script or xtra that knows to batch the compression task?
3. Regarding to audio compression. Can I use external editor? Or I must delete the audio files and re-import them as mp4?
Im using director 11.5 on mac.
Thanks a lot
Shay

Hi again,
I investigate the dir file and I discover lots of audio files in swa format. All of them contain makeover voice. Im pretty sure  they should be converted into mp3 or mp4. The big question is how do I do it?
Remind you that i'm using director 11.5 on mac which has not compress audio option in publish settings.
Thanks
Shay

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