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Product
Description
- Create compelling 2D animations for Windows, Macintosh,
Unix, PDAs, and even cell phones
- Design, develop, and maintain interactive online
experiences with the latest release of Dreamweaver,
Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute, and FlashPaper
- Filters and Blend Modes help you create more compelling
designs with great effects like drop shadow, blur,
glow, bevel, color adjust and gradient bevel
- Easier text resizing, with improved text handles
- Superior stroke properties and gradient control
Product
Description
Macromedia Flash Pro 8 is the industry's most advanced
authoring environment for creating interactive web sites,
digital experiences, and mobile content. With Flash
Professional 8, creative professionals can design and
author interactive content rich with video, graphics,
and animation for truly unique, engaging web sites,
presentations or mobile content.

Flash Player 8 adds a new, far more advanced video codec,
On2 VP6. This codec provides superior video quality
that is competitive with today's best video codecs at
a much smaller file size. View larger.

Build content once and test it on a wide variety of
devices using preset profiles for every mobile device
that supports Flash Lite. View larger.

Script Assist provides a visual user interface for editing
scripts that includes automatic syntax completion as
well as descriptions for the parameters of any given
action. View larger.

A revolutionary new font rendering engine that provides
clear, highest-quality font rendering, FlashType makes
small fonts look amazingly clear and greatly improves
readability. View larger.
A major product release for Macromedia, Flash Professional
8 has many brand new features including: amazing graphic
effects, integrated and stand-alone video encoding complete
with support for alpha transparency, high-quality text
rendering with advanced anti-aliasing control, improved
text tools, and a new video plug-in to export Flash
Video (FLV) files from professional video products.
Get Full Creative Control
Great ideas deserve great tools. Flash provides full
design control to maximize creativity, resulting in
a consistent end-user experience across a variety of
platforms. Flash Pro 8 gives you the creative and technical
tools you need to unleash applications to the web, Windows,
Macintosh, Unix, PDAs, and even cell phones. With Flash
Pro 8, you can reach the widest possible audience via
the free and widely distributed Flash Player, installed
on 98 percent of desktops globally.
Flash Professional 8 includes a major focus on usability
enhancements so developers can work more efficiently
without the application getting in the way. Script Assist,
formerly Normal Mode, is back, and it's better than
ever. Script Assist provides a visual user interface
for editing scripts that includes automatic syntax completion
as well as descriptions for the parameters of any given
action. With multiple files open, each open files is
consolidated into a single panel that acts like all
other panels in Flash -- it stays where it's put. This
way you can navigate between open libraries more easily
using the new drop-down list.
Improved panel management optimizes the workspace as
you require. You can group panels together in tabbed-panel
sets, ala Dreamweaver and Fireworks, thereby reducing
on-screen clutter by grouping most commonly-used panels
together. For projects that require large graphics that
extend far beyond the size of the stage in Flash, Flash
Professional 8 lets you view objects much further off-stage.
To expand the size of the pasteboard, simply drag an
object close to the edge and the pasteboard will automatically
grow to fit.
Rich Animation, Video, and Mobile Capability
Flash Pro 8 gives you the tools to create compelling
2D animations. By taking advantage of the most widely
deployed video platform on the Internet, you can take
video where it has never gone before.
Flash Professional 8 offers continued momentum to the
rapidly expanding Flash video platform and new functionality
for mobile content developers. Build content once and
test it on a wide variety of devices using preset profiles
for every mobile device that supports Flash Lite. Configure
the testing profile to include multiple devices and
filter the supported device list by target content type
to easily determine which handsets support screen savers,
wallpapers, in-browser content, stand-alone player,
and so on. This will greatly reduce development time
and simplify your planning for delivery.
Flash Player 8 includes a new, advanced video codec
that provides superior video quality that's competitive
with today's best video codecs at a much smaller file
size. It also offers support for a real alpha channel
at run-time. This revolutionary new capability provides
the unique ability to overlay video composited with
a transparent or semi-transparent alpha channel over
other Flash content. This allows you to create dynamic
presentations such as splashing water, smoke and fire
effects, and more.
Enhancing The Image
Flash Pro 8 lets you create more compelling designs
with built-in filter effects like drop shadow, blur,
glow, bevel, gradient bevel, and color adjust. Filters
are visual effects applied to MovieClips and text fields
and are natively supported and rendered in real time
by Flash Player. Going well beyond what other design
tools offer, Flash Professional 8 offers run-time control
over blend modes, allowing graphical effects to be composited
for fully dynamic user interactivity.
Other enhancements include FlashType, a revolutionary
new font rendering engine that provides clear, highest-quality
font rendering. FlashType makes small fonts look amazingly
clear and greatly improves readability. You can choose
from several options for font rendering, each optimized
for different use cases, as well as resize a text field
using new, improved text handles.
You can also easily, intuitively, and precisely control
the velocity of animated objects through an intuitive
graph that provides independent control of position,
rotation, scale, color, and filters. In addition to
enhanced stroke functionality that allow you to select
from a variety of cap and join types, you can apply
a gradient to a stroke as well as a fill, and render
stroke intersections better with stroke hinting.
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