Chapter Nine. Publishing and Exporting

Converting a Flash movie into a format suitable for public consumption is called publishing. Effective publishing requires that you know as much as possible about your movie’s likely viewers: What kind of computers are they likely to have? How fast are their Internet connections? What version of Flash Player can you expect them to have? The answers to questions like these help you choose the most appropriate output options for a movie. Those options—called Publish Settings—are stored in the movie’s FLA file.

Flash also has the capacity to convert movies—or single frames—into a variety of file formats through a process called exporting. The advantage of exporting over publishing is that more file formats ...

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