Summary: How to know what settings to use to test your Flash movie; learn more about encoding video on websites in this free instructional video.
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"This is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village continuing on now over testing your movie. I showed you how to test your movie from control test movie which is done in flash with a flash player. Another way you want to do it is right inside your browser. Now to do this you need to set your publish settings first and you need to publish your file, including HTML male file. So that when you go under publish preview HTML will be there right now it just has the flash which is the same as going under your control test movie. So we want to set our publish settings, first going to bring up publish settings and here you can see that we have formats and flash. For formats you want to choose flash, HTML and you can also set GIF you can create a JPEG, quick time for flash movie, just choose flash HTML go back to our flash and you can set the version and a bunch of other different things. You can press in your movie, the JPEG quality and under HTML there's other settings you can choose, the template you might use, flash only template, even the dimensions you can match the movie, and HTML alignment, scale and so on. So right from here you can actually publish it if you hit the publish button see it's publishing, we'll hit okay now, now our file is published for view inside a browser, we'll show you that in our next clip, I'm Bill Macpherson for Expert Village."
eHow Article: Settings for Testing your Flash Movie in Flash CS3