i posted this in the site design forum but i've not had a response so i thought
i'd post it here - in retrospect it blongs here more

i do apologise at the probable stupidity of this

i have piece together about 30 photograhps to create an animation. i want them
to play back at around 20fps but when i text the movie it initialy plays really
slow - untill you play it again and it runs a lot smoother. i want it tto
appear in the centre of a html based pages and play smooth as the page is
opened. so obviously it must be something to do with the load time of the page.

i simply animated it on the timeline for scene one and in retorspect should
have turned the first image into a movie clip and animated the rest in there.
it took me about 4 hours to put together, and i have tried to cut and paste all
the frames into a move clip on frame one but for some reason it wont let me. i
can cut and past it frame by frame but when i paste it it knocks out the
positioning - despite the x y values being exactly the same.

i was thinking of putting a stop action on frame 1 and and on press goto and
play frame 2 - so in the time it takes the visitor to press it it can load and
play much smoother. i simply can't get the action script right.

i have used flash many times before but i aways have long breaks in between
projects so sometimes forget the simplest of things.

can anyone help me on this please.
much appriciated

this may help, but I'm not so advanced either. I know this will preload a
little before playing. It may be what you're looking for. The 30 is the
number of seconds that will buffer before playing. In your case, it is
probably much less.

yourVideo_mc.setBufferTime(30);


hope it helps...