Flash Professional 8

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Introducing Macromedia's biggest Flash release to date.

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Flash® Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.

With Flash Professional 8, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.

Overview

Why Flash Professional 8

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.

Build once, deliver anywhere.

Unleash applications to the web, Windows®, Macintosh®, Unix, PDAs, and even cell phones. Reach the widest possible audience via the Flash Player, installed on 98% of desktops globally.

Create rich animation.

Create compelling 2D animations with the tool that brought animation to the Web.

Take video where it has never gone before.

Take advantage of the most widely deployed video platform on the Internet.

Occasional users may be interested in Flash Basic 8—a subset of Flash Professional 8 which includes all the core functionality needed to design simple motion graphics and interactivity for delivery to the Flash Player. Find out more.

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Best Practices of Flash Design

Leading designers and developers show how to effectively build professional-quality Flash content.

Developing Flash content for devices

Get the latest software downloads and information for creating Flash content for mobile devices.

Support for Intel-based Macs

Learn about Adobe's plans for supporting Apple's new Intel-based Macs (PDF, 79K)

Adobe to open source Flash Player scripting engine

Learn about a new open source project, hosted by the Mozilla Foundation, that uses code powering the ActionScript Virtual Machine.

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Evaluation Resources

Evaluating Flash Professional 8

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About Studio 8

Design. Develop. Maintain.

Studio 8 is the essential software suite used to design, develop, and maintain interactive online experiences. Combining the latest releases of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute™, and FlashPaper™, Studio 8 offers web designers and developers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency, and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content.

In addition to Flash Professional, Studio 8 contains:

Dreamweaver 8

The industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.

Fireworks 8

Balance maximum image quality with minimum compression size as you create, edit and optimize images for the web with precise control.

Contribute 3

Freeing designers and developers from web maintenance, allowing others to easily update content in a controlled environment that preserves the integrity of the website.

FlashPaper 2

Allowing anyone to easily convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets and other file types into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with one click.