>When I drop the movie into the score, and just move it into 
>location, it helps a bit, but still drops frames (both video & 
>sound). Unless, of course, I preload the video that's sitting in the 
>score (resulting in the mega lag ;)


You should use scripts to start the movie, and not rely on the movie 
starting itself. That way Director has a moment to settle down before 
the movie plays, otherwise there's a fight going on between QuickTime 
playing the movie from one area of the CD, and Director still loading 
graphics from another area.


>I checked out our codec: it's Sorenson. But while I was doing that, 
>I noticed that on the problem movie, the data rate was 1.5 MB/sec. 
>Anyone have an idea if this is unrealistic for laptop cd-rom drives?

Higher data rate Sorenson is more processor intensive. You're at 
quite high data rates (CD-ROM rates are more usually around 300k/s), 
and slower machines may hitch even if they're playing off the hard 
drive.


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