Not contradicting any of the above posts but there is an alternate method of bringing in your animation into flash.
1: First make a new folder anywhere and call it ANIM_FRAMES.
2: In 3DSM goto render (F10) and select the smallest resolution ratio given.
3: Click on the File Types button and the Save As Type dialog box opens. Browse to the new folder called ANIM_FRAMES that u created. Now in the drop down box just below the name box pick the JPEG option. Now press okay or select.
4: You should now find yourself in the Render Dialog again. Make sure you pick your JPG quality as 70% or lower. Higher than that is not required for web purposes.
5: You can play with the rest of the render settings if you want. Make sure you select the ENTIRE TIME SEGMENT option before you render. Now you can click the RENDER button at the bottom.
6: Now it should render all your frames as images and put them in your ANIM_FRAMES folder. It might take some time depending on your animation.
7: Once the rendering is complete, open up Flash MX (I assume your using MX).
8: In Flash insert a movie clip by pressing F8 and picking movie clip. Call the movie clio something like mclAnimation.
9: Now goto FILE>IMPORT and browse to your ANIM_FRAMES folder. Pick the FIRST image that appears in that folder. It should be sumthing like "youranimationname0001.jpg". You have to pick the first image for this to work. Once you select your first image Flash has this great feature where it will ask you "This image is part of a sequence of image. Do you want to import the entire sequence into your timeline?" Obviously you pick yes. Now Flash automatically places all your images of your animation into each frame. You will have some 1000 odd frames, possibly more or less.
10: Now all you have to do is export your flash file as a .SWF and you can upload it or show it playing on your website. I'm wildly guessing your animation should be around 20 - 30MB, perhaps less and you won't need any codecs, plugins, etc. Just Flash Player to view.
This whole process should take you no more than 2 hours, beginner or not.
If you have any more questions, PM me. Good luck!
