In Three Easy Steps

Since your primary goal is to publish your Flash movies on the Web, you'll transform your .fla file to a .swf file. This compresses your .fla file, including any audio or video.

Set Publish settings:
1. Open the Flash file you want to publish.

1. In the File menu, choose Publish Settings.

2. At the top, click the Formats tab.

3. Choose Flash (.swf) - and deselect any others that are selected (if you don't need html).

4. Click the Flash tab.

5. At Version, choose Flash 7.

6. At Load order - choose Bottom Up

7. At ActionScript version, choose ActionScript 2.0

8. Check Compress Movie.

9. Don't worry about the JPEG Quality bar.

10. At Audio Stream, click the small Set button to the right of Audio stream: MP3, 16 kbps, Mono.

11. In the Sound Settings dialogue box that opens…

12. at Compression, leave in MP3

13. at Preprocessing, check Convert stereo to mono

14. at Bit Rate, choose 48 kbps

15. at Quality, choose FAST

16. if your audio is mostly human voices, and the audio isn't very good, in Compression, choose SPEECH

17. click OK

18. Back in the Publish Settings dialogue box, click OK.

19. Click Publish, and your .fla file will be compressed into a .swf file and put in the same folder as your .fla file.