What is Adobe Flash ?

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What is Flash ?

Adobe Flash CS4 is a powerful multimedia creation tool used to create and display animation, video, and sound content. It can be also used to create Interactive Rich Internet Application (RIA).

Flash can work with:

• Bitmap Graphics,
• Sound - you can change the compression of a sound by opening the Sound Properties window
• Video

What are different Flash File types?

Following are the different Flash file types:
1) Flash File (.FLA) - Flash working file (while creating artwork)
2) Flash Movie(.SWF) - contains Flash content which can be played in the Flash Player.
3) Video (.FLV, .F4V, .MP4) - These are video file type supported by Flash Player.
Existing Movies can be converted to these format using Adobe Media Encoder which is included in Adobe Flash CS4. When you import a video into Flash the controls to play back the video is automatically added.
4) ActionScript File (.AS) - file containing Actionscript code. Using ActionScript you can control timeline or add interactivity to animations. You can place ActionScript code in either frames on the timeline or in external files.
5) XFL Files(.XLF)

What are different Drawing Types in Flash?

There are two main drawing types in Flash are:

• object, used for creating standard shapes
• merge, used for creating custom shapes by cutting over

What are Symbols?

Symbols are the basic building blocks of Flash.

Different types of symbol are:

• movie clips - store animations
• buttons - store button control
• graphics - store graphics which can't contain animations