Flash 8 Professional is the most
significant release since the
introduction of Flash — the industry’s
most advanced authoring environment for
creating interactive websites, engaging
digital experiences, and high-impact
mobile content. Consisting of all the
features in Flash Basic 8, Flash Professional 8
provides advanced Flash developers
everything they need to build the most
compelling digital content. Whether the
design is for high quality motion
graphics and animations, or developing
complex interactive applications, Flash
Professional 8 provides a rich set of
tools and workflows completely optimized
for the professional Flash user.
Features
Include:
All the features in Flash Basic 8 plus:
Filters
- 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.
Blend modes - Going well beyond what
other design tools offer, Flash 8
Professional offers run-time control over
blend modes, allowing graphical effects to
be composited for fully dynamic user
interactivity.
Custom easing control
- 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.
Alpha channel support
- Support for a real alpha channel at run
time. This revolutionary new capability
provides the unique ability to overlay video
composited with a transparent (even semi
transparent) alpha channel over other Flash
content. Create dynamic presentations such
as splashing water, smoke and fire effects,
as well as presenters shot in front of a
blue screen.
Advanced video encoding options
- The advanced video encoder, available
within the Flash authoring tool, as a
plug-in to professional video editing tools,
as well as a stand-alone tool, provides
advanced encoding options that will allow
developers to optimize quality and file size
of video content.
Stand-alone video encoder - Advanced
encoding options for creating Flash Video
files using either the new, high-quality On2
VP6 codec or the Sorenson Spark codec. This
encoder also includes a batch-processing
capability to encode multiple video files at
once.
Video Encoder plug-in for professional video
editing tools
- Export video directly to Flash from
leading professional video-editing and
encoding tools such as Avid Xpress/Media
Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, Discreet
Cleaner, and Anystream Agility.
Embedded cue points
- Embed cue points directly into Flash Video
(FLV) file so events can be triggered
dynamically during playback. Used in
conjunction with the new Flash Video
component, easily coordinate the playback of
accompanying graphics and animations when
individual cue points are reached.
Minimum System
Requirements:
Windows
800 MHz Intel Pentium III processor (or
equivalent) and later
Windows 2000, Windows XP
256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more
than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
1024 x 768, 16-bit display (32-bit
recommended)
710 MB available disk space
Macintosh
600 MHz PowerPC G3 and later
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4
256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
1024 x 768, thousands of colours display (millions of colours recommended)