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Previewing movies with the Test Movie command

Although Flash can play movies in the authoring environment, many animation and interactive functions cannot work unless the document is exported to its final Flash movie format. Using commands in the Control menu, you can export the current document as a Flash movie and immediately play it using the Test Movie command. The exported movie uses the options set in the Publish Settings dialog box. You can also use the Test Movie command to test downloading performance. See Testing movie download performance.

In addition, you can test actions in a movie using the Debugger. See Using the Debugger.

To test all interactive functions and animation:

Choose Control > Test Movie or Control > Test Scene.

Flash creates a Flash movie (a SWF file), opens it in a separate window, and plays it with the Flash Player. The SWF file is placed in the same folder as the FLA file.