Best Practices for Flash Player DetectionThe problem has riddled developers since the birth of Macromedia Flash: What happens when a site visitor doesn't have the version of Macromedia Flash Player...
Built-in Rules for Bitmap Caching Flash guides you through best practices of using bitmap caching through some built-in restrictions. Basically, Flash Player takes care of you by either turning on...
Bitmap Caching and Memory Usage Bitmap caching naturally makes Flash Player use more memory, because for every cached movie clip the player has to store the vector data and the...
When to Use Bitmap Caching If used correctly, bitmap caching can dramatically reduce the amount of updating instructions that the renderer has to process in every frame, and your applications...
How Bitmap Caching Works When you turn on bitmap caching for any given movie clip, the player converts the contents of the movie clip into a bitmap, which it generates...
Using Bitmap Caching in FlashAs most of you know, Flash began as a tool for creating vector animations on the web. Flash Player was designed specifically as a lightweight animation...
Exporting Dynamic Content with SWF2Video I know I said earlier that when you author content for video, avoid dynamic content completely, but when it comes to exporting a Flash movie...
Handling Audio If your Flash project contains any audio, there are some important technical details you need to consider. Quality is important, specifically sounds recorded in stereo at a 44.1...
Exporting to Video Your movie is now ready for exporting. You have the right aspect ratio, frame rate, and colors, and everything is on the main Timeline or set as...
Handling Movie Clips and Graphic Symbols Exporting Flash projects to video format requires everything to be on the main Timeline. Graphic symbols are treated as part of the Timeline because,...
Using Safe Colors The computer monitor you are looking at as you read this article is designed to display the full range of 256 RGB color values (0–255). By contrast,...
Ensuring Title and Action Safety Televisions do not generally display the entire width and height of your movie. They show a smaller portion of the true display size. Cropping a...