# Preloader/External .swf question
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-external-swf-question/120443
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 24, 2004, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-external-swf-question/120443 "2004-08-24T11:38:43Z")
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### Author:  [@roadcrew2001](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/roadcrew2001)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-external-swf-question/120443/1 "2004-08-24T11:38:43Z")
I am doing an project for work in which I have a huge main movie…its 198mb. I need to load an external movie that includes some video. That external movie is like 95mb. How can I preload everything so that there is no lag when I get to the scene where I load the external swf? This movie, of course, is not getting put on the internet. I am using Flash as sort of a high end Powerpoint app. I know this is not what Flash is intended for, but it has worked great. Any help in how I can do this would be appreciated. Not sure if this is just a basic preloader or not. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Prophet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Prophet)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloader-external-swf-question/120443/2 "2004-08-24T17:52:04Z")
actually… it is how flash started out: as basically a powerpoint app.
hence the timeline etc 🙂
but you want the whole thing preloaded (198MB+95MB)? use a simple preloader from a tut on this site but for your total bytesloaded, have the this.bytesTotal or whatever it is added to the total of your externally loaded movie and do likewise with the bytesLoaded thing…
Prophet.