File formats for all media

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All file names will end in the standard three-letter file extension for that file format (preceded by a period).

The standard file extensions are:

Images: .jpg, .gif, .psd, .tif

Movies: .mov, .mp4

Audio: .aif, .mp3, .wav

Text: .txt, .doc

Flash: .fla, .swf, .flv, .as

File Format Guidlines:

Flash Formats:

.fla: Source files for individual Flash movies.
.swf: Published form of .fla files.
.as: ActionScript files
.flv: Video files used by Flash.

Movie Encoding:

Pre-processed format: .mov
Post-processed format: .flv (Processed videos will compressed .mov files using Squeeze or Flash Encoder into .flv format.)
Compression: H.264
Video quality: High
Sound quality: High

Audio Formating:

File Format: MPEG3 – 160kbps
Interface Audio: MP3 compressed no lower than 64kbps.

Images:

Post-Processed format: .jpg, .gif
Pre-Production format: .psd, .ai, .tiff
Vector Images will be drawn in Adobe Illustrator and Flash.
Bitmap Images will be created using Adobe Software.
All images will be optimized for the web using Adobe Software.

Text Documents:

Text documents refered to in ActionScript will be stored in the .txt format.

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