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In Flash you work with a variety of file types each of which has a separate purpose so let me review In this movie, some of the more important files types that you'll be working with in Flash CS3 Professional. FLA files are the primary files you'll work with in Flash, that's what I have open here. These files contain the basic media timeline and script information for a Flash document. The majority of the files that I've placed in the working folder are files are of type FLA files. You've also got media objects, media objects are the graphic, text, sound and video components that compromise the content of your Flash document. Notice that these are stored in the library. The timeline up here at the top is where you tell Flash when specific media objects should appear on the stage here, in the center portion of my interface. In fact the stage takes up the majority of the Flash interface. You can add ActionScript code to Flash documents to more finely control their behavior and to make them respond to user interactions like many of the components of Flash the ActionScript has its own panel or window accessible from the main menu under window actions. There's my actions panel. Here's another type of file you'll be working with a lot in Flash and that is an SWF file. SWF files are the compiled versions of the FLA files. This particular SWF was created from the FLA file that I just showed you in Flash. These are the files that you display in a webpage. Notice that this is in my browser in firefox. When you publish your FLA file, Flash creates these files for you, that's the SWF file that's embedded into the HTML file, so Flash will create both when you publish. The third type of file are projectors, I have a projector open here. Projectors are stand alone files published from again the source FLA file. These can playback Flash content from a CD a DVD or even from an email without using either a browser or the Flash player. You can create projectors that playback in both windows or Mac's from either version of the Flash application. So for example in this version of Flash running in windows I can create projectors for both the Macintosh and the Windows platforms. As your Flash skills develop you'll start using AS or action script files. These are external files where you store some or all of your ActionScript code. This will be outside of the FLA file. This is helpful for code organization or for those projects that have multiple people working on different parts of a Flash document. You also have files called SWC files, these contain the reusable Flash component. Each SWC file contains a compiled movie clip, ActionScript, code and any other assets that the component requires. ASC files are used to store ActionScript that will be executed on a computer running the Flash Media Server. These files provide the ability to implement server side logic that works in conjunction with action script in the SWF file. You also have JavaScript files, JSFL, you can use these to add new functionality to the Flash authoring tool. Especially for adding functionality between the way the SWF file interacts with the browser. And lastly you have FLP or Flash project files. Use Flash project files to manage multiple document files in a single project. Flash projects allow you to group multiple related files together in order to create more complex applications by keeping your organizations simple and straight forward. Let me now move onto the next movie and review some of the more important new features found in Flash CS3 Professional.