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.
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.
Product Description
Adobe Commercial Flash Pro 8
Flash 8 Professional Features:
- New filter effects, shadows, and advanced animation.
- Easily create and deliver great interactive video.
- Create, test and deliver content for millions of mobile devices.