Dimensions of flash movie

Hi there,
Just wondering if anyone can tell me what dimensions i should
make my flash movie?
It is going to be for a cd-rom and be executed at full
screen......just wondering if anyone has some guidelines for this.
Thanks,
Nathan

wally_errrr wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Just wondering if anyone can tell me what dimensions i
should make my flash
> movie?
>
> It is going to be for a cd-rom and be executed at full
screen......just
> wondering if anyone has some guidelines for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nathan
>
just do it in dimensions or the workspace of your file
doesn't matter, i
think. just try to do all your animation within a 800 x 640.
then put an fscommand for the full screen and the allowScale
to false.
so the movie does not scale when loaded. just the plain
background that
you have... does this make sense? i don't know. just trying
to help

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