Publishing and Exporting > Exporting movies and images

To prepare Flash content for use in other applications or to export the contents of the current Flash Movie 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. (Use Publish to create all the files you need to put a Flash movie on the Web. See Publishing Flash movies.)

The Export Movie command lets you export a Flash movie to a still-image format and create a numbered image file for every frame in the movie. You can also use Export Movie to export the sound in a movie to a WAV file (Windows only).

To export the content of the current frame or the currently selected image to one of the still-image formats, or to a single-frame Flash Player movie, you use the Export Image command.

	When you export a Flash image as a vector-graphic file (in the Adobe Illustrator format), you preserve its vector information. You can edit these files in other vector-based drawing programs, but you can't import these images into most page-layout and word-processing programs.
	When you save a Flash image as a bitmap GIF, JPEG, PICT (Macintosh), or BMP (Windows) file, the image loses its vector information and is saved with pixel information only. You can edit Flash images exported as bitmaps in image editors such as Adobe Photoshop, but you can no longer edit them in vector-based drawing programs.

To export a movie or image:

1	If you are exporting an image, select the frame or image in the current movie that you want to export.
2	Choose File > Export Movie or File > Export Image.
3	Enter a name for the output file.
4	Choose the file format from the Format pop-up menu.
5	Click Save.
	If the format you selected requires more information, an Export dialog box appears.
6	Set the export options for the format you selected, as described in the following sections.
	The export options and publish settings are identical for Flash movies and Generator templates. For information on other export formats, see About export file formats.
7	Click OK, then click Save.