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Creating new casts

Before assembling a large number of cast members, it's good practice to create the casts necessary to keep them organized. You can sort casts by type, edit cast properties, and use external casts for storing and sharing common media elements.

You can create as many casts as necessary; the number of casts does not affect the size of a movie for downloading.

You can include up to 32,000 cast members in a single cast, but it's usually best to group media such as text, buttons, and images logically in a few different casts for each movie.

To create a new cast:

1 | Choose File > New > Cast.
2 | Type a name for the new cast.
3 | Specify how the cast is stored:
| Internal stores the cast within the movie file. This option makes the cast available only to the current movie.
| External stores the cast in a separate file outside the movie file. This option makes the cast available for sharing with other movies. For information about internal and external casts, see Managing external casts.
4 | If you chose External and you don't want to use the cast in the current movie, deselect the Use in Current Movie option.
5 | Click Create.
| The cast is created, and a Cast window for the cast is opened in List view. See Using the Cast window.
6 | If you created an external cast, choose File > Save while its Cast window is active, then save the cast in the desired directory.