Publishing multiple .swf files to play continuously

I have used a program called Camtesia that publishes its
presentations in Shockwave (or .flv) formats. I have a 3 MB
presentation that I am supposed to deploy to my company's website,
where we are "encouraged" to keep media files under 500 KB. In
considering a solution, I thought about breaking the presentation
into smaller .swf files, but I want to be able to embed them within
the HTML to play continuously and seamlessly, so it appears as one
presentation. If anyone has any suggestions for me as to how I can
either do this or employ a different solution, I would really
appreciate the help. Thanks!
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CJR 2007 wrote:
> I'm trying to upload multiple .swf files to my website
with no luck. I've done
> this with previous versions of Dreamweaver but with CS3
I'm finding it won't
> happen. I've done the Insert -> Media -> Flash
action as before and exported my
> files to be read in Adobe Player 8 but nothing then
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> have been uploaded yet locally everything works fine.
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>
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