Thread: Saving A File - Publishing a Movie

A flash movie can be considered successful only after others have viewed it on the Web. In order to do this, you need to publish the movie. There are some steps to be followed in order to publish a Flash Movie. The first step in publishing a movie is to share it. For this, the component parts required consists of a SWF file, a Web page and a hosting account for the Web. Flash movies are saved in .swf format in two ways. We can publish the file or can export it. To Publish a Flash file to SWF click on File > Publish. From the option Publish Settings you can define the file types you want to publish. Here you can set your publishing preferences. These preferences are in respect to the File Types. The main publishing Formats are as follows:
Flash .swf
Html .html
jpeg jpg
GIF .gif
PNG .png
Windows Projector Macintosh Projector
and others .exe

Apart from these there are two other Tabs. These are settings for Flash and HTML. In Publish settings you will get a button called "Publish". After you choose your desired settings if you click on Publish 'then your anima¬tion file will be published in your desired mode. Another way you can save in .swf format is by exporting the Flash Movie.