Chapter 17. Delivering Movies to Your Audience

When you finish creating graphics, animation, and interactivity in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, it’s time to deliver the goods to your audience. You must publish or export the Flash document (FLA) to create a file in a format for playback. You have several formats to choose among. The one that guarantees viewers will see all your animations and take part in all your movie’s interactivity is the Flash Player format (SWF). A partially interactive solution is to publish your movie in QuickTime format.

When you install Flash CS3, you can also install version 9 of the Flash Player application. You can view SWF files running directly in Flash Player on your computer. Other programs, such as Web browsers, ...

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