Optimizing

Summary

You’ve now seen the technicalities of how you make sure your Flash movie gets where you want it to go in the form you intended, and in a manner that’s satisfactory for the user.

You saw that

• The Bandwidth Profiler lets you see

• How your movie will play on the Internet.

• Where any pauses in playback will occur.

• Streaming is used to smoothly download the components of your movie before they are needed on the stage.

• A preloader can buy you time to download your entire movie in one go.

In the next chapter, you’re going to look at the issues involved in preparing your movie for publishing on the Web.