I like using macromedial (funny name..lol) for animation, because you can make more complex anims than in standard anim progs, such as jascs animation shop. However, after publishing a flash anim as a gif, I then import it into some animation prog like jascs, as that gives much better animation compression results, for smaller file sizes than macromedial.

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