How to get a movie to be loading in background?

Question

Hi, I posted this in the General forum, but it wasn't getting
much interest. I'm hoping someone here can help.
We're designing a portfolio site. It will have a fairly large
amount of large bitmap images that need to look really good.
I'll make another post to make sure I have the very best
optimization techniques down. But to keep quality up, some movies
may just end up being fairly large (though I'm not sure how 'large'
is defined these days with broadband).
- But I'm wondering if/how to have a movie(s) 'preload' in
the background so that when it is called up, it is all or mostly
loaded in the browser cache?
Basically, we've divided each of the sections of the
portfolio up into separate movies, with a various number of large
images each. These are called up when you click their text link in
the landing page area. I was hoping that as people hit the landing
area and are reading the text or looking over the links, a couple
of our larger-sized movies could be loading in the background so
they don't have to wait as long if/when they click the link to that
movie.
Thanks. This is a bit new to me, so I want to make sure it's
done as well and efficiently as possible. It needs to function and
look very professional.

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply.
Just a couple questions for clarification.
- Is loading these movies with an _alpha zero in our initial
'landing page' movie (which does not have a preloader) going to
cause this initial movie to have problems (with
slowdowns/chunkiness)?
- Are you saying to assign _alpha to the target within the
initial 'landing page' movie or to the movie you are loading?
- Any opinions on the efficiency differences between doing
this with the _alpha or the _level commands?
- Any other methods?
Thanks again for the help!