Publishing and Exporting > About export file formats > Windows AVI (Windows)

This format exports a movie as a Windows video, but discards any interactivity. The standard Windows movie format, Windows AVI is a good format for opening a Flash animation in a video-editing application. Because AVI is a bitmap-based format, movies that contain long or high-resolution animations can quickly become very large.

The Export Windows AVI dialog box has the following options:

Dimensions specifies a width and height in pixels for the frames of an AVI movie. Specify only the width or the height; the other dimension is automatically set to maintain the aspect ratio of your original movie. Deselect Maintain Aspect Ratio to set both the width and the height.

Video Format selects a color depth. Many applications do not yet support the Windows 32-bit image format. If you have problems using this format, use the older 24-bit format.

Compress Video displays a dialog box for choosing standard AVI compression options.

Smooth applies anti-aliasing to the exported AVI movie. Anti-aliasing produces a higher-quality bitmap image, but it may cause a halo of gray pixels to appear around images when placed over a colored background. Deselect the option if a halo appears.

Sound Format lets you set the sample rate and size of the sound track, and whether it will be exported in mono or stereo. The smaller the sample rate and size, the smaller the exported file, with a possible trade-off in sound quality. For more information on exporting sound to the AVI format, see Compressing sounds for export.