Chapter 16: Exporting; Exporting Flash Content And Images - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

CHAPTER 16
Exporting
The Export Movie command in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Macromedia Flash MX
Professional 2004 lets you create content that can be edited in other applications and export Flash
content directly into a single format. For example, you can export an entire document as a Flash
SWF file, as a series of bitmap images, as a single frame or image file, or as moving and still
images in various formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PICT, QuickTime, or AVI.
When you export a Flash file in the SWF format, text is encoded as Unicode, providing support
for international character sets, including double-byte fonts. Macromedia Flash Player 6 and later
versions support Unicode encoding. For more information, see Chapter 13, "Creating
Multilanguage Text," on page 235.
If you have Macromedia Dreamweaver, you can add Flash content to your website easily.
Dreamweaver generates all the needed HTML code. You can start Flash from within
Dreamweaver to update the Flash content. See "Updating Flash content for Dreamweaver
UltraDev" on page 352.
This chapter contains the following sections:

Exporting Flash content and images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

About export file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Updating Flash content for Dreamweaver UltraDev. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Exporting Flash content and images
To prepare Flash content for use in other applications or to export the contents of the current
Flash document in a particular file format, you use the Export Movie and Export Image
commands. The Export commands do not store export settings separately with each file, as does
the Publish command. (You use the Publish command to create all the files you need to put Flash
content on the web. See "Publishing Flash documents" on page 311.)
The Export Movie command lets you export a Flash document to a still-image format and create
a numbered image file for every frame in the document. You can also use Export Movie to export
the sound in a document to a WAV file (Windows only).
To export the contents of the current frame or the currently selected image to one of the still-
image formats or to a single-frame Flash Player application, you use the Export Image command.
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