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Saving your Animate document

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Saving your Animate document

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- [Instructor] No matter which document type you are using for an Animate project, the authoring file type remains the same even when the target platform differs. Let's go ahead and save our project. If we notice now in the tab above our stage, we've got the term Untitled, and there'll be a random number after the name Untitled for anything that isn't saved. Let's go ahead and choose File, Save. Locate a proper folder on your desktop that you'd want to save this in and simply give it a name. I'm going to just call this Starter. And this is going to be an FLA document, which is an Animate document. Now, Animate documents can be considered authoring files. So these files only exist within the Animate authoring environment. And this is what you use to actually create the assets and animation and anything else that's part of your project. When you either publish or export, that will create a distributable version of the project. So the FLA is always yours. You never want to distribute…

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