May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
778 pages
23h 58m
English
Content preview from Flash CS5: The Missing Manual
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Exporting Flash to Other Formats
Exporting your entire animation—or one or more of the individual frames that make up your animation—is very similar to publishing. In both cases, you get to specify which file format you'd like Flash to write, and in both cases, you get to tweak file settings based on the file format you choose. Flash designates the most common file formats (.html, .swf, .gif, .jpg, .png, and projector files) as publishing destinations and all other file formats as export destinations. Most of the time, you'll export (rather than publish) an image, sound, or your entire animation when you want to work with it in another graphics or animation program.
To export to a single frame image, select File→Export→Export Image. To export to an animation (multiframe) file format or an audio format, select File→Export→Export Movie. In Flash Professional CS5, there are very few differences in the available formats for Macs and PCs. The most significant is that Windows computers can write to the Windows BMP, AVI, and WAV formats. Table 20-1 shows the available formats.
Table 20-1. File formats to which you can export your Flash animation
Format | Extension | Note |
|---|---|---|
SWF Movie | .swf | Single Frame Image |
Adobe FXG | .fxg | Single Frame Image |
Bitmap | .bmp | Single Frame Image |
JPEG Image | .jpg | Single Frame Image |
GIF Image | .gif | Single Frame Image |
PNG Image | .png | Single Frame Image |
SWF Movie | .swf | Animation |
Windows AVI (Windows only) | .avi | Animation |
QuickTime | .mov | Animation |
Animated GIF | .gif | Animation |
WAV Audio (Windows only) | .wav | Audio |
JPEG ... |
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