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Working with Authortime shared assets - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Flash Professional: Shortcuts
Working with Authortime shared assets
Have you ever wanted to share assets between multiple FLA files? Flash CS5 has a new feature that makes it easier than ever. So on the stage here in my sk8bit file I have a movie clip that an instance of the symbol named kid and what I want to do is share this asset with other FLAs. The way I want to shared it is have it be a link, so if I update the main symbol in the sk8bit FLA file, it will get updated in all of the linked FLA. So let's go to shared.fla and go to the Library and click the New Symbol button. You can give this any name you want, so I'll call this Kid Linked capital N, capital L, and in the Advanced section find the Authortime Sharing area. Click the Source File button and choose sk8bit.fla to find the symbol. Remember it's called kid. So I'll click on that and see the preview there and click OK. Note that you could change the symbol later if you want by clicking the Symbol button or the source file obviously and then you can click the Update Automatically option to…
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