Getting Started

When you create and save Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and 
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 documents within 
the Flash authoring environment, the documents are in 
FLA file format. To display a document in Macromedia Flash
Player, you must publish or export the document as a SWF file.

You can add media assests to a Flash document and manage the 
assests in the library, and you can use the Movie Explorer to 
view and organize all the elements in a Flash document. The Undo
and Redo commands, the History panel, and the Commands menu let 
you automate tasks in a document.