Slow loading sound clips

Question

Hi:
I created a tutorial project for a customer. The project
consist of about 34-40 pieces of voice over to which sprites are
animated visualizing what the voice over explains. I converted the
voice clips to .wav files because I added cue points for director
to recognize. I ended up with clips as big as 12mb. The total size
of my executable right now is 184mb. The project plays fine, except
that it takes about 30 seconds to start, and every time a new
section is about to start, it takes about 5-10 second for the audio
to load. Once the audio is loaded, it plays fine, until the next
clip is reached, and it freezes again until it loads.
Is there a way to load the whole project at once? Is there a
better way to handle these type of projects? Am I stuck with what I
have?
Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

In the help file there are instructions to make a "fast start
projector". It is underthe heading "Creating Projectors".
That is the
fastest you can get it to load. there are a few other tricks,
like
making a bitmap (or pict on Mac) for a splash screen. Name it
the same
as the projector...
i.e. if you have projector.exe then your splash screen will
be named
projector.bmp. It will popup almost immediately, so it at
least looks
like something is happening though it won't actually speed
anything up.