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Preloading digital video

You can eliminate the delay caused by loading a digital video from disk during a Director movie by loading it at the beginning of the movie. You can preload an entire digital video (or as much of the video as will fit into available memory) using the Property Inspector.

To preload a digital video:

1 | Select a digital video cast member in the Cast window.
2 | Click the QuickTime or AVI tab in the Property Inspector.
3 | Select Preload.

This option uses the `preLoad` or `preLoadMember` command. If there is not enough memory to load the entire movie, Director loads only what will fit into memory. If this option is turned off, Director does not load the movie into memory and instead plays it from disk. This results in slower animation speeds, since each frame must be retrieved from disk before it is played.