# When do you decide to use loadmovie?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-do-you-decide-to-use-loadmovie/212137>\
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**Created:** [January 8, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-do-you-decide-to-use-loadmovie/212137 "2007-01-08T20:19:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![korpka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea5d25/32.png) [@korpka](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/korpka)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-do-you-decide-to-use-loadmovie/212137/1 "2007-01-08T20:19:46Z")

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Let’s say I am building a site where I will use LoadMovie or MovieClipLoader to load external swf’s. BUT how do you guys decide if you should do that or if you should just load MC’s ? should I build my site and then see how big the swf is ? then decide if I should edit some of the swf and create external swf’s ?