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
reat 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.