Advice needed for stop-motion Flash site

Hi there,

I’m pretty new to Flash and I’m running into serious swf file-size issues.

I’m working on a site that basically has stop-motion animation for a background. So there is a new jpeg in each keyframe. I tried to keep the filesizes of the Jpegs down (25% quality, but some of the animations are large so the swfs for some sections are about 5mbs! I’m not using actionscript so far, but would the stop motion animations run smoothly if they were loaded into keyframes dynamically (or would each one have to load and ruin the flow of the animation?!)

What size should I be aiming to get my swfs down to so that people dont have to wait forever for them to load?!

Do people still use 56k modems to view flash sites?

Here’s a test one if anyone wants to see

http://www.rossharrington.com/bookDiy.html

I’d really appreciate some help as I’m at my wits end and the site is supposed to be live by next week!

Thanks,

Ross