Problem importing mp4 files in director 12

Hello,
I have a new question.
In my project I have almost 60 mp4.
The size is around 10- 20 MB.
Director doesn't import all of them. After ten-fifteen imported, Director becomes slower, the thumbnail doesn't come out, I can't open .mp4 in the mp4editor and Director often crashes.
Do you know why?
How can I figure out with this problem?
Elisabetta

Hello Elisabetta,
NOTE: I’m only taking a GUESS here, as my largest ever project was 500 meg!
Not enough RAM might be your problem???
Director likes to load all the cast members into ram while in authoring.
Even though Director tries to work - it shows (place holder) blank cast members until they fully load into ram.
After a few videos showing blank cast members - that’s when things start to get flaky.
Sometimes you have to give director time to load the videos into ram.
The way I get around this...
Make a set low quality versions of all the videos - say 1mb in size each.
Director only links to the external videos anyway!
Once your finished with everything, and published it as a projector - now replace all the external videos with the top quality ones.
This way will require a folder with all the linked external videos inside them!
Videos steam well after you publish as projector or shockwave.
Even though a compressed mpeg4 video shows a file size as 10meg - it can require over 100 meg of ram to fully display it while working with it in authoring.
Just like when doing video editing!
I would guess that your going to need 32 gig of ram to be able to work with so many videos - at once.
60 * 20 mb = 1.2 gig of compressed videos.
More like 60 * 200 mb = 12 gig
How I do internal videos...
To embed all the videos inside a single projector file - first I convert all the videos to .swf format
I work with one dummy black screen video - I copy it over and over, as the names of all the real videos - I put them all into the right places on the stage - then once i’m happy with everything - I import all the real videos over the top of all the dummy ones.
Then I publish. I do not try to view it within authoring in case it crashes!
regards
Milky

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