Summary

• To minimize your wait during publishing or testing Flash movies, you may want to use MP3 files for all of your Event Sync sounds.

• Test your Flash movies and scenes within the Flash authoring environment. The Bandwidth Profiler can provide vital information about frame byte requirements and can help you find problematic streaming areas of the Flash movie.

• The size report that can be generated from the Export Movie or Publish commands for Flash movies lists detailed information related to individual elements, such as audio, fonts, and frame byte size.

• The Publish Settings dialog box enables you to pick any number of file formats to export at one time. You can control just about every setting imaginable for each file type and use HTML templates to automate the insertion of Flash movies into your Web pages.

• Flash movies published from Flash 8 can now have specific local playback security options, preventing unscrupulous Flash content creators from accessing private information on another person's computer.

• Flash 8 offers an updated Flash Player version detection feature in the Publish Settings dialog box. With this feature, you can create an HTML page that detects which version of the Flash Player a user has and direct her to appropriate content on your site.

• The profiles feature in Flash 8 enables you to quickly load publish presets that you can apply to one or more Flash documents.