Publishing and Exporting > Publishing Flash movies > Publishing a Flash Player movie

When publishing a Flash Player movie, you can set image and sound compression options, and an option to protect your movie from being imported. Use the controls in the Flash panel of the Publish Settings dialog box to change the following settings.

To publish a Flash Player movie:

1	Choose File > Publish Settings and click the Flash tab.
2	Choose a Load Order to set the order in which Flash loads a movie's layers for displaying the first frame of your movie: Bottom Up or Top Down.
	This option controls which parts of the movie Flash draws first over a slow network or modem connection.
3	Select Generate Size Report to generate a report listing the amount of data in the final Flash Player file by file. See Testing movie download performance.
4	To allow debugging the published SWF file, select any of the following options:
	Omit Trace Actions makes Flash ignore the Trace action in the current movie to prevent the Output window from opening and display comments.
	For more information, see the related topic in ActionScript Help.
	Protect from Import prevents others from importing the Flash SWF file and converting it back into a Flash movie.
	Debugging Permitted activates the Debugger and allow debugging a Flash movie remotely. If you select this option, you can choose to password-protect your movie file.
	If desired, select Password to enter a password to prevent unauthorized users from debugging a Flash movie that has Debugging permission. If you add a password, others must enter the password before they can debug the file. To remove the password, clear the Password field.
	For more information on the Debugger, see the related topic in ActionScript Help.
5	To control bitmap compression, adjust the JPEG Quality slider or enter a value.
	Lower image quality produces smaller files; higher image quality produces larger files. Try different settings to determine the best trade-off between size and quality; 100 provides the highest quality and least compression.
6	If you did not specify a sample rate and compression for individual sounds in the Sound Properties dialog box or to override your settings, select an option:
	Click Set Audio Stream to set the exported stream rate and compression for all movie sounds; then use the Sound Properties dialog box to set the audio stream. A stream sound begins playing as soon as enough data for the first few frames has been downloaded; a stream sound is synchronized to the Timeline for playing on a Web site.
	Click Set Audio Event to set the exported rate and compression for all movie sounds; then use the Sound Properties dialog box to set the audio event. An event sound must download completely before it begins playing and continues playing until explicitly stopped.
	Select Override Sound Settings to override the settings in the Sound Properties dialog box for individual sounds and create a larger high-fidelity audio movie for local use and a smaller low-fidelity version for the Web.
	For instructions on changing these settings, see Compressing sounds for export.
7	Choose a Flash version. Not all Flash 5 features work in movies published as earlier Flash versions.
8	To save the settings with the current file, click OK.