FLA

Editable Adobe Flash project (animation, movie, flash application)

File type: Graphics file

Files with fla extension is used for editable Flash animations, apps, movies etc. Usually used before the flash project is finalized during its development. Can be opened in Adobe Flash.

Found 2 different file type records with the same fla filename suffix.

.fla (1)

What is fla file?

File type category:
Graphics file

Date updated: January 8, 2025

File extension fla is used for projects created by Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash).

Adobe Flash is used for creating animations, banners, movies or whole apps, flash websites or games.

Flash .fla files are used for the basic project file, which are used in the development context. This file contains library of objects and source files needed for creating an animation or whatever flash developer wants.
It should contain all the settings, layers, scripts and libraries with vector graphics, sounds, pictures, texts, scripts, videos etc.

After its development, a Flash project needs to be "published" or "compiled" for the use on the Web. It then gets a swf extension which can be played with an Adobe Flash player.

How to open fla file?

The *.fla files can be opened in to its native application the Adobe Flash. Adobe Flash is a part of the Adobe Creative Suite.

How to convert fla file?

You can use Adobe Flash to export the contents of *.fla files in to the another multimedia file format.

Suggested software to open fla file:

Adobe Animate CC

Adobe Animate CC for Mac

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash Player for Mac

Adobe Flash Player for Linux

Adobe Flash for Mac

Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Creative Cloud

Associated software actions with the fla file

.fla (2)

Audio files encoded by Flac - free lossless audio codec

File type category:
Audio and sound file

Date updated: July 13, 2025

The fla file extension is primarily used by Adobe Flash for its project files, but sometimes it can be also used for FLAC audio files.

Open-source audio format that uses lossless audio compression, meaning it does not remove any of the original audio data - compresses audio with no loss in quality.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.

See: file extension flac for more information.

Mime types:
audio/flac