Hi,
I have been wondering about flash for a while now and have finally decided to try and gain a better understanding of it. I have been able to watch flash movies and animations and have seen flash banners, but how do I make these myself?

In Accessories on windows ME there is a Windows Movie Maker. I made a 'movie' on this. It plays on Windows Media Player.

I cannot find what format it is in, how do i put the frames into a flash format and upload it on to the internet so I can play it on a web page?
Also, I would like a kind of 'progress bar' thing to show what percentage of the movie has loaded while the viewer waits....

Please can anyone make things any clearer? LoL, thank you,
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