Processing templates with Generator overview

When generating a movie, you can override the default frame rate, frame size, and background color by using the Publish Settings command. This lets you change the size of a generated movie you put into an HTML page without having to modify the movie, or generate a movie with different background colors to match different pages.

Before you place a finished template on a Web server, you should preview, export, and debug the template. Previewing a template lets you see how the template looks to users in their browsers. You can then export or save the Generator template as an SWT file.

To change Generator settings:

1 Choose File > Publish Settings, then click the Generator tab.
2 Change any of the following settings:
Width specifies the image width when converting to a file or stream. Select Match Movie to use the settings you specified with the Modify > Movies command while authoring the template.
Height specifies the image height when converting to a file or stream. Select Match Movie to use the settings you specified with the Modify > Movies command while authoring the template.
Background specifies a background color for the scenes of your movie. This value overrides the background color set with the Modify > Movies command. You can set the value for this option in three ways: a Web-safe color name (for example, black), a Web hexadecimal value (for example, #3434aa), or a regular hexadecimal value (for example, 0x232356).
Frame Rate specifies how quickly the frames of the current movie are displayed when an animation is played back. The rate is specified in frames per second (fps). If you specify a frame rate of 10 fps, each frame of the animation appears on the screen for 1/10 of a second; a 100-frame animation plays for 10 seconds. This setting overrides the frame rate set with the Modify > Movies command.
Load Order specifies the order in which you want layers to load for the first frame. Over a slow network or modem connection, Flash draws parts of the file as they become available. Use this option to determine what will appear first when the movie downloads.
Data Encoding specifies the data encoding to use for data sources. See Working with cross-platform and localized data sources for more information.
Create External Font Files directs Generator to create font files. These font files are cached and help with performance when many fonts are used in a movie.
External Media specifies the name of the Generator template that contains the symbols you want to use in this template. Specifying this option includes the library from the specified file into the current file, allowing you to access symbols in that file as though they were native. If the same symbol is defined in both the external media file and the current file, the external media file's symbol is used.
Parameters is used to define variables. This is convenient for testing templates locally as part of development. Put the name of the variable in the Name text box and its value in the Value text box.
Note: You can use the Parameters option to test how variables will work when processed.
3 Preview the template. See Previewing, debugging, and exporting templates.