Description
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional is the industry-leading authoring environment for creating engaging interactive experiences. Its friendly yet powerful new tools for animation and collaboration help you deliver rich dynamic content to wide audiences across browsers, desktops, and devices.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional sofware ofers a completely renewed focus on ease of use. An object-based animation model makes working in Flash more approachableand equally more productive. Adjust timing quickly without breaking tweens, modify motion paths using Bezier curves, and tweak attributes like rotation, size, and color independently. Powerful new design tools such as 3D Translation and 3D Rotation, Bones, and Deco open the door to new creative possibilities. Unrivaled as an interactive design tool, Flash CS4 is the one place to bring it all togetherimporting content from other creative sofware and working smoothly with other Adobe productsto create nspirational experiences that go just about anywhere. Use Adobe Media Encoder to integrate high-defnition H.264 video to reach wide audiences whether youre publishing content to a web browser, a mobile device, or directly to the desktop with Adobe AIR. More so than any previous release, Flash CS4 enables creative professionals to bring ideas to life in new ways.
With Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, you can:
Design with ease and efficiency. Designing in Flash has never been easier. A new objectbased animation model applies tweens directly to symbols; Bezier curves allow you to smoothly modify automatically generated motion paths; and a new Motion Presets panel makes it simple to save and then apply your favorite animations to any object. Experienced Flash users will also appreciate a new Motion Editor panel that ofers granular levels of attribute and easing controls, which are used to create smooth, fne-tuned animations. Explore new creative possibilities. New and exciting creative tools such as 3D Translation and 3D Rotation, Bones, and Deco ofer an interactive playground for you to explore your vision and creativity. Bring visual experiences into a new dimension by animating 2D objects through 3D space. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like efects or intuitive behaviors between symbols and add interesting and organic expression to your designs with the Deco tool.
Collaborate across workflows. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional makes it even easier for designers and developers to work hand in hand. Te XFL fle format enables users to open content from Adobe Afer Efects CS4 sofware and Adobe InDesign CS4 sofware directly in Flash CS4, and now you can import a code-only ActionScript 3.0 SWC component developed in Adobe Flex Builder sofware. In addition, XMP metadata support allows users to quickly fnd and share SWF fles, and a common user interface across the Creative
Suite 4 Web and Design products makes it easy to switch between applications.
Deliver for a wide audience. Te success of a project ultimately relies on how many people can view and interact with it. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional is the one place to bring assets together and deliver brilliant interactive experiences that go where your audiences are - web browsers, desktops, and mobile devices. XMP metadata support for mobile content enhances the mobile experience, and new publishing features allow you to instantly generate Adobe AIR applications that seamlessly bring your content directly to the desktop.
Top new features of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional contains hundreds of enhancements, including an easy-to-customize user interface consistent with other components within the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of sofware. Listed here are the most signifcant new features found in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
Object-based animation modelIn previous versions of Flash, creating an animation on the Timeline involved a myriad of keystrokes and commands involving symbol creation, manual placement of keyframes, and manual tween adjustments on the Timeline itself. Even upon the succesful creation of an animation, users faced time-consuming and sometimes difcult editing tasks whenever changes had to be made.
Te adoption of an object-based animation model means that motion tweens are applied directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Now, Flash CS4 Professional is far more approachable for new users, while simultaneously providing advanced designers and developers far greater control of individual animation attributes.
Creating a motion tween
With Flash CS4, tweening, or the interpolation of steps between keyframes, is now applied directly to objects, rather than to keyframes in the Timeline. In fact, the new object-based animation model enables users to create animations without using the Timeline at all.
Editing a motion tween
If creating an animation proves just how user-friendly Flash CS4 can be, the process of
editing an animation likewise proves how powerful this new version can be. For example, motion paths are now automatically generated and easily modifed with Bezier handles.
In addition, timing can be adjusted throughout an animation without having to manually set keyframes in the Timeline, andmore importantly without breaking tweens. This provides signifcant efciency with more intuitive interaction and control.
3D transformations
Bringing perspective and dimension to your design can add an element of excitement and fun to any project. But until now, the ability to create 3D motion was available only to expert users via ActionScript or other sophisticatedtools. Now, with Flash CS4, you can
animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D transformation tools, greatly
extending creative possibilities. Built for inexperienced and advanced users alike, the 3D
transformation tools make motion efects available to everyone.
XFL support
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional introduces support for XFL, a fle format that allows for improved integration across the Creative Suite 4 family. Users can now easily export content from Adobe InDesign and Adobe Afer Efects to Flash. With XFL support, InDesign and Afer Efects users have new opportunities to begin using Flash.
Metadata support
As more and more digital content flls your hard drives and servers, it becomes increasingly difcult to quickly fnd the fles you need. Metadata plays an important role in solving this
problem by making fles smarter about the content they hold. With metadata, fnding the right content at the right time not only becomes easyit also enables a level of collaboration
that was not previously possible.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional sofware ofers a completely renewed focus on ease of use. An object-based animation model makes working in Flash more approachableand equally more productive. Adjust timing quickly without breaking tweens, modify motion paths using Bezier curves, and tweak attributes like rotation, size, and color independently. Powerful new design tools such as 3D Translation and 3D Rotation, Bones, and Deco open the door to new creative possibilities. Unrivaled as an interactive design tool, Flash CS4 is the one place to bring it all togetherimporting content from other creative sofware and working smoothly with other Adobe productsto create nspirational experiences that go just about anywhere. Use Adobe Media Encoder to integrate high-defnition H.264 video to reach wide audiences whether youre publishing content to a web browser, a mobile device, or directly to the desktop with Adobe AIR. More so than any previous release, Flash CS4 enables creative professionals to bring ideas to life in new ways.
With Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, you can:
Design with ease and efficiency. Designing in Flash has never been easier. A new objectbased animation model applies tweens directly to symbols; Bezier curves allow you to smoothly modify automatically generated motion paths; and a new Motion Presets panel makes it simple to save and then apply your favorite animations to any object. Experienced Flash users will also appreciate a new Motion Editor panel that ofers granular levels of attribute and easing controls, which are used to create smooth, fne-tuned animations. Explore new creative possibilities. New and exciting creative tools such as 3D Translation and 3D Rotation, Bones, and Deco ofer an interactive playground for you to explore your vision and creativity. Bring visual experiences into a new dimension by animating 2D objects through 3D space. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like efects or intuitive behaviors between symbols and add interesting and organic expression to your designs with the Deco tool.
Collaborate across workflows. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional makes it even easier for designers and developers to work hand in hand. Te XFL fle format enables users to open content from Adobe Afer Efects CS4 sofware and Adobe InDesign CS4 sofware directly in Flash CS4, and now you can import a code-only ActionScript 3.0 SWC component developed in Adobe Flex Builder sofware. In addition, XMP metadata support allows users to quickly fnd and share SWF fles, and a common user interface across the Creative
Suite 4 Web and Design products makes it easy to switch between applications.
Deliver for a wide audience. Te success of a project ultimately relies on how many people can view and interact with it. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional is the one place to bring assets together and deliver brilliant interactive experiences that go where your audiences are - web browsers, desktops, and mobile devices. XMP metadata support for mobile content enhances the mobile experience, and new publishing features allow you to instantly generate Adobe AIR applications that seamlessly bring your content directly to the desktop.
Top new features of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional contains hundreds of enhancements, including an easy-to-customize user interface consistent with other components within the Adobe Creative Suite 4 family of sofware. Listed here are the most signifcant new features found in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
Object-based animation modelIn previous versions of Flash, creating an animation on the Timeline involved a myriad of keystrokes and commands involving symbol creation, manual placement of keyframes, and manual tween adjustments on the Timeline itself. Even upon the succesful creation of an animation, users faced time-consuming and sometimes difcult editing tasks whenever changes had to be made.
Te adoption of an object-based animation model means that motion tweens are applied directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Now, Flash CS4 Professional is far more approachable for new users, while simultaneously providing advanced designers and developers far greater control of individual animation attributes.
Creating a motion tween
With Flash CS4, tweening, or the interpolation of steps between keyframes, is now applied directly to objects, rather than to keyframes in the Timeline. In fact, the new object-based animation model enables users to create animations without using the Timeline at all.
Editing a motion tween
If creating an animation proves just how user-friendly Flash CS4 can be, the process of
editing an animation likewise proves how powerful this new version can be. For example, motion paths are now automatically generated and easily modifed with Bezier handles.
In addition, timing can be adjusted throughout an animation without having to manually set keyframes in the Timeline, andmore importantly without breaking tweens. This provides signifcant efciency with more intuitive interaction and control.
3D transformations
Bringing perspective and dimension to your design can add an element of excitement and fun to any project. But until now, the ability to create 3D motion was available only to expert users via ActionScript or other sophisticatedtools. Now, with Flash CS4, you can
animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D transformation tools, greatly
extending creative possibilities. Built for inexperienced and advanced users alike, the 3D
transformation tools make motion efects available to everyone.
XFL support
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional introduces support for XFL, a fle format that allows for improved integration across the Creative Suite 4 family. Users can now easily export content from Adobe InDesign and Adobe Afer Efects to Flash. With XFL support, InDesign and Afer Efects users have new opportunities to begin using Flash.
Metadata support
As more and more digital content flls your hard drives and servers, it becomes increasingly difcult to quickly fnd the fles you need. Metadata plays an important role in solving this
problem by making fles smarter about the content they hold. With metadata, fnding the right content at the right time not only becomes easyit also enables a level of collaboration
that was not previously possible.