Lesson 11. Optimizing Flash Content

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Broadband Internet connections, while more widespread now, are still not ubiquitous. So there's a good chance that some of your Flash site's visitors will not be viewing it over high-speed connections. In fact, depending on your audience, some of your visitors will be using a somewhat slow dial-up connection. If that's the case, you must make sure that the file sizes for your site are as small as possible. You can do that by optimizing the content using some of the methods outlined in this lesson.

Optimizing content should lead to a smaller file size .

Chrissy Rey

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

In this lesson, you will:

• Use the Bandwidth Profiler to see which parts of a movie require preloading

• See how to preview your movie as it might play if it were downloaded over a modem line

• Optimize the assets in a Flash movie to reduce the file size

• Export a Flash movie as a .swf file

• Load a .swf file into a movie

• Load a JPEG image into a movie

APPROXIMATE TIME

This lesson takes approximately one hour to complete.

LESSON FILES

Media Files:

None

Starting Files:

Lesson11/Starting/feature1.fla

Lesson11/Starting/guestbook8.fla

Lesson11/Starting/map8.fla

Lesson11/Starting/visitorinfo1.fla

Lesson11/Starting/zoo34.fla

Completed Files:

Lesson11/Completed/feature2.fla

Lesson11/Completed/guestbook9.fla

Lesson11/Completed/main1.fla

Lesson11/Completed/map10.fla

Lesson11/Completed/visitorinfo2.fla

Lesson11/Completed/zoo37.fla

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