Although Flash can play movies in the authoring environment, many animation and interactive functions do not work unless the movie is exported in its final format. Using commands on the Control menu, you can export the current movie as a Flash movie and immediately play the movie in a new window. The exported movie uses the options set in the Publish Settings dialog box.
You can also use this window to test downloading performance. See Testing movie download performance.
To test all interactive functions and animation:
Choose Control > Test Movie or Control > Test Scene.
Flash creates a Flash Player movie, opens it in a separate window, and plays it with the Flash Player. The Flash Player file is located in the same folder as the FLA file. It is not a temporary file.