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Using Publish default settings

To create a Shockwave movie, you use the Publish command. The default settings create a DCR file and an HTML file with all of the tags necessary to display your DCR movie.

If you use the default Publish settings, Director will do the following:

| Create a DCR and HTML file in the same directory as your Director (DIR) movie.
| Note: Director creates a CCT file for each external cast and, by default, saves the CCT file in the same folder as the DCR file. To specify a different file location, hold Alt (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) when you choose File > Publish. Continue to hold the key for access to dialog boxes that let you specify new paths for both your DCR and CCT files.
| Give both your DCR and HTML files the same name as your DIR file, with the appropriate extensions (e.g., MyMovie.dcr and MyMovie.html).
| Set the DCR movie's width and height to match the dimensions of the DIR movie.
| Configure the DCR movie and HTML file so that if your users resize their browsers, the DCR movie remains the same size as the original DIR movie.
| Use the same background color while loading your DCR movie as your movie Stage color.
| Compress bitmap images and sound using JPEG compression. Note that if you've compressed images for individual cast members, those settings will override compression set at the movie level in Publish settings.

If you change the default Publish settings, Director saves those changes when you save your movie. For more on changing Publish settings, see Changing Publish settings.

To create a Shockwave movie:

1 | Save your movie.
2 | Choose File > Publish.
| Director creates a Shockwave version of your movie, and an HTML file if you selected a template, based on your Publish settings. Your default browser launches with the HTML page you just created.

Note: Your default browser is specified in your Network Preferences dialog box. To change your default browser, choose File > Preferences > Network.