Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 User Manual

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a custom user setting, select Customize.

3. When viewing the SWF file, select View > Bandwidth Profiler to show a graph of the downloading performance.

The left side of the profiler displays information about the document, its settings, its state, and streams, if any are included in the document.

The right section of the profiler shows the Timeline header and graph. In the graph, each bar represents an individual frame of the
document. The size of the bar corresponds to that frame’s size in bytes. The red line beneath the Timeline header indicates whether a given
frame streams in real time with the current modem speed set in the Control menu. If a bar extends above the red line, the document must
wait for that frame to load.
Note: (Flash Professional CC only) Bandwidth Profiler is unavailable with Flash Professional CC. You can choose to use Adobe Scout with
Flash Professional, instead. See

Using Adobe Scout with Flash Professional

for more information.

4. Select View > Simulate Download to turn streaming off or on.

If you turn streaming off, the document starts over without simulating a web connection.
Note: (Flash Professional CC only) The Simulate Download option is unavailable with Flash Professional CC.

5. Click a bar on the graph to show settings for the corresponding frame in the left window and stop the document.

6. If necessary, adjust the view of the graph by taking one of the following actions:

Select View > Streaming Graph to show which frames cause pauses.

This default view displays alternating light and dark gray blocks that represent each frame. The side of each block indicates its relative
byte size. The first frame stores a symbol’s contents, so it is often larger than other frames.

Select View > Frame by Frame Graph to display the size of each frame.

This view helps you see which frames contribute to streaming delays. If any frame block extends above the red line in the graph, Flash
Player stops playback until the entire frame downloads.

7. Close the test window to return to the authoring environment.

After you set up a test environment using the Bandwidth Profiler, you can open any SWF file directly in the test environment. The file opens
in a Flash Player window, using the Bandwidth Profiler and other selected viewing options.
Note: (Flash Professional CC only) Bandwidth Profiler is unavailable with Flash Professional CC. You can choose to use Adobe Scout with
Flash Professional, instead. See

Using Adobe Scout with Flash Professional

for more information.

Generate a final report

1. Select File > Publish Settings, and click the Flash Professional tab.

2. Select Generate Size Report.

3. Click Publish.

Flash Professional generates a text file with the .txt extension. (If the document file is myMovie.fla, the text file is myMovie Report.txt.) The
report lists the size of each frame, shape, text, sound, video and ActionScript script by frame.