Macromedia Flash 8

 Macromedia 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.

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.

Features of Macromedia Flash Professional 8:

- Twice as Fast
Boost runtime performance by 2-8x with the enhanced compiler and the new Macromedia FlashPlayer 7.
- Third Party Extensions
Create charts and graphs, animate text effects and more with extensions (sold separately)
- High Fidelity Import
Integrate rich media content faster with high fidelity import of PDF and Adobe Illustrator 10 files.
- Timeline Effects
Simplify common timeline and scripting tasks with new Timeline Effects and Behaviors
- Applications and Data
Build rich Internet applications with a familiar forms-based development environment and powerful data binding.
- High Quality Video
Deliver high-quality video with new professional video capabilities.
- Advanced Interactive Content
Create sophisticated interactive content using slides to organize and sequence your project.
- Mobile and Device Development
Produce and test content for devices and mobile phones with device templates and emulators