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Eric Mueller writes on March 17, in part, "I'm thoroughly confused. Does anyone
know which order Director 5.01 writes cast members to CD. I've gotten several
conflicting answers - one person will say Director writes Cast members in the
order they appear in the score, while another will say Cast members are written
in the order they appear in the Cast."
Although this is in the KB, it can be hard to find... difficult to get unique
search words for this topic. It's in the record by Mark Shepherd in Nov 94, with
the unique keywords of "file seek offset, traceLoad, optimization". Here's the
relevant part:
"After a 'Save As...' or 'Save and Compact' Director rewrites fully-imported
media to disk in the order in which they occur in the Score. Graphics not in the
Score (puppets and such) are then written after this file, in Cast Window
order."
The several prior answers you received are not really conflicting answers, more
like partial answers. Director 4 and above automatically optimized file writes
for linear streaming presentations. Media is written to disk in the order it
appears in the Score, and then the Cast is checked for any remaining media. I
think this information may also be in the MediaBook CD.
Eric also writes, "Where does Director write Movie and Parent Scripts? What
about external, linked Casts? I've also noticed that when my movie is started
all scripts in the cast seem to be loaded in memory. If this is really true,
then wouldn't it be best to have all scripts located at the beginning of the
cast?"
This issue will come up frequently over the next few months, as we start
designing streaming presentations. Here's the scoop:
Instructions load first. Then the movie can start. Media can stream in the
background. All tokenized scripts will load into memory before start of play.
All cast database info will load into memory before start of play. The position
of scripts in the cast won't matter here, because (the tiny) instructions load
before play, and (the massive) media loads during play.
Complex area when optimizing like this, Eric... hope the above is of use in your
work, and please post back to the list if it needs to be clarified.
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Tech Support
D. Plänitz