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Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 5021
Format: Cd-rom Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows Xp Media: CD-ROM Edition: Full Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Operating System: Mac OS X Shipping Weight (lbs): 3 Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 1.4
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Release Date: January 1, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| ⋅ | 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 |
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Product Description FLASH PRO 8 MLP RET CD 1U
Amazon.com 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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| Customer Reviews:
As Essential as Photoshop July 8, 2007 Trurl (Earth) 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you do artwork or design Flash is just as important to have in your tool kit as Photoshop is. Flash is an all purpose, multi-functional graphics program. It does animation, drawing, painting, web pages, games, video encoding, and programming. It was originally intended to be a drawing programming, so the basic tool set is very intuitive and once learned aids in drawing. I have seen examples on the Web that actually use it to color their comic pages. I use the drawing tools to draw math diagrams or touch up AutoCad drawings. The animation also has a low learning curve. You can create movie clips, button, or graphics to define your animated entities. There is a time line that is used to create the animation. As shown you don't need Action Script unless you are designing a game or website, or enhancing the animation. I myself am not much of a coder. But Action Script is relatively easy compared to other programming languages. I have just used it for simple things like buttons and links, but all you need to do is turn on "script assist" and have a good reference book. I have not programmed any games. I would not let Action Script discourage you from trying Flash. As mentioned, Flash is a multi-purpose tool and that is true for all skill levels. The degree of difficulty can range from drawing a line to programming a game. I have yet to create an entire Flash site. That can get involved. But if you look in my profile, my site has some of the things that I have created in Flash. Not the most impressive examples. But one has buttons and another is an animation. It just shows that even with a basic understanding of Flash, work can still be produced.
The best program ever. November 30, 2006 8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I use this program to create vector-based animations for my site, and for the people that don't know actionscript, turn the script-assist on, it works. More exuses for great programs would be... Toon Boom Studio (Great but over-priced.) Anime Studio (The bone-rigging is awesome!)
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