Adobe Flash CS3 Professional [OLD VERSION]

by Adobe

Product Features

• The ideal solution for creating rich, interactive content for the web and mobile devices
• Design interactive instructional media such as how-to demonstrations and training materials
• Produce interactive video, animations, and motion graphics for broadcast, web, and mobile.
• Enjoy seamless integration with other Adobe creative tools
• Ideal for web and interactive content designers, instructional media designers, graphic designers, students, or video and motion graphics professionals

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.7 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000NDICRW
• Item model number: 38039481
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 27, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,844 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #9 in Software > Web Development > Web Effects > Animation
  • #15 in Software > Web Development > Professional Development
  • #34 in Software > Graphics > Animation

Product Description

Amazon.com

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, presentations, games, and more. Depend on Flash CS3 and Adobe Flash Player to ensure your content reaches the widest possible audience.

Create rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms.

No more running back to Photoshop to make simple text edits.

Enjoy creative flexibility
Realize your creative vision with a full complement of drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Explore innovative styles and techniques, impress your clients with more than they expected, and deliver consistent results across multiple platforms. With Flash CS3 Professional, the possibilities extend as far as your imagination.

Maximize development productivity
Leverage the power of a true development environment. Utilize professional coding tools including code collapse, commenting, automatic syntax completion, streamlined error resolution, and more. The new ActionScript 3.0 language supports a structured and intuitive workflow that saves time and facilitates exchange between designers and developers, enabling individuals and teams to deliver predictable, consistent results that meet or exceed the original vision.

Easily work with other Adobe software
Now your favorite tools will play well together. Enjoy timesaving integration with other Adobe creative software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flex Builder 2, After Effects, and Soundbooth, as well as Adobe Bridge, the central hub of Adobe Creative Suite 3. Easily exchange designs, assets, and files between applications without compromising fidelity.

Extend your reach
Extend the reach of your work by creating content for Adobe Flash Player, the world’s most pervasive software platform. Flash Player is installed on more than 700 million computers and devices worldwide, including over 96% of Internet-enabled desktops. By creating content with Flash CS3, you can leverage your work not only to the Internet, but also to a wide range of mobile and consumer electronics devices. Create content once, and then deploy it to multiple platforms.

Audience Benefit

Web and interactive content designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software offers a flexible, advanced authoring environment for creating unique online experiences with the latest in technical innovations, such as interactive video and high standards of usability and accessibility. Flash CS3 makes it easy to design interactive experiences that convey your true creative vision and impress your clients. Enjoy intelligent integration with other Adobe creative software.

Instructional media designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software offers an intuitive, flexible authoring environment for creating instructional media content that is easy to deploy to the widest possible audience via web and mobile devices. The advantages of Flash CS3 include the ability to integrate audio and video, seamless integration with related Adobe software, and optional integration with education tracking systems.

Graphic designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software enables experienced graphic designers to expand their creative repertoire to include interactive design without compromising efficiency or disrupting existing processes and workflows. Use Flash CS3 to build projects that impress clients with truly unique, interactive, engaging content that better enables them to meet their marketing or business goals.

Student designers--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software offers nearly limitless opportunity to student designers and developers who are interested in building careers using interactive design technology. Flash CS3 integrates with and supports a broad spectrum of emerging technologies, including Ajax, 3D animation, online video, and open source development. Each day, more and more creative professionals make Flash CS3 their primary tool for building a creative reputation and advancing their career.

Video and motion graphics professionals--Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software dramatically expands the creative options for video and motion graphics professionals without compromising efficiency or disrupting existing processes. Create innovative videos, films, and animations with compelling creative and interactive effects and leverage them across media, including broadcast, tape, web, and mobile devices. Leverage the advantages of Flash Player, including small content file size; broad distribution; and rapid, automatic updates.

Produce content for a wide range of mobile and consumer electronics devices.

Top Reasons to Buy Adobe Flash CS3

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator import
Import Photoshop (PSD) and Illustrator (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Flash CS3. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.

Frame-based timeline
Quickly add motion to your creations with the easy-to-use, highly controllable, frame-based timeline inspired by traditional animation principles such as keyframing and tweening.

Shape primitives
Easily create pie wedges, round off rectangle corners, define an inner circle radius, and do much more. Visually adjust shape properties on the stage. And create custom shapes with the included JavaScript API.

ActionScript 3.0 development
Save time with the new ActionScript 3.0 language, featuring improved performance, increased flexibility, and more intuitive and structured development.

Sophisticated video tools
Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive download Flash Video with comprehensive video support. Ensure the best video experience with a standalone video encoder, alpha channel support, a high-quality video codec, embedded cue points, video import support, QuickTime import, closed captioning, and much more.

MP3 audio support
Integrate audio into your projects by importing MP3 files. Integration with Adobe Soundbooth makes it easy to edit files as needed, without requiring audio production experience.

Rich drawing capabilities
Visually adjust shape properties on the stage with smart shape drawing tools, create precise vector illustrations with the new Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, paste illustrations from Illustrator CS3 into Flash CS3, and more.

Extensible architecture
Leverage the Flash application programming interfaces (APIs) to easily develop extensions that add custom functionality.

Convert animation to ActionScript
Instantly convert timeline animations into ActionScript 3.0 code that can be easily edited, reused, and leveraged by developers. Copy animations from one object to another.

Adobe Device Central Design, preview, and test mobile device content, including interactive Adobe Flash Lite applications and interfaces, using Adobe Device Central, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Additional Features

Powerful shape drawing
Manipulate vector shapes with powerful shape drawing tools. Easily bend, erase, distort, skew, and combine vector shapes in a natural and intuitive way.

Skinnable video component
Use the video component to easily customize the look and feel of video projects without significantly increasing file size. The component works with multiple deployment options, including streaming and progressive download.

Improved Adobe software integration
Enjoy a smoother and more efficient workflow enabled by integration between Adobe Flash CS3 and related software, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Soundbooth, as well as Adobe Bridge, the central hub of Adobe Creative Suite 3.

Pen tool
Create precise vector illustrations with the Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, and then manipulate Bezier control points using Illustrator keyboard shortcuts.

Adobe interface
Enjoy a new, streamlined interface that emphasizes consistency with other Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications and can be customized to improve workflow and maximize stage space.

Product Description

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, presentations, games, and more. Depend on Flash CS3 and Adobe Flash Player software to ensure your content reaches the widest possible audience.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flash Bang, October 27, 2008

By 

D. Long "CodeBreaker" (Roseville, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Flash CS3 Professional [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

Great application. Been using it for years after migrating from Macromedia (now Adobe) Director. Flash is the de facto online interactive design software out there right now. You can create sophisticated animations synced to sound as well as full blown interactive media and training projects. Excellent compression of assets which makes the output (SWF) files extremely small as compared to say Director Shockwave files. However, you cannot access the local client file system (i.e. you cannot save information on the client's machine) except through cookies for security reasons. This is one thing I miss about Director Lingo - you had full access to everything.

Currently, lot's of work available for Flash developers too. You can still program in ActionScript 2, but Adobe made a big leap forward with ActionScript 3. AS 3 moves towards true Object Oriented Programming (OOP). I do have some misgivings about this though. I am a programmer with OOP training so this isn't as difficult a leap for me, but a lot of Flash developers tend to be Web and/or Graphic Design people not programmers.

OOP is a whole different paradigm that requires some abstract understanding of how objects work. It introduces a lot of new concepts to the uninitiated and it changes the way you used to do things in Flash. My initial feeling is that if they deprecate AS 2 with the next version and go fully to AS 3 there will be a drop in sales as I believe the learning curve may become too steep for the average designer to cope with. It will make Flash development a specialist job requiring a savvy programmer...just a surmise, but we'll see.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great power, bad user interface, no stroke, July 25, 2008

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The Information (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Flash CS3 Professional [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

The latest Flash upgrade enhances this amazing world standard for vector animation. Like many Adobe products the amount of power under the hood is both astonishing and overwhelming. Unfortunately this software, like other Adobe products such as Photoshop, is plagued by a terrible user interface. Once again get ready to enroll yourself in classes and buy a pile of books just to decipher a user interface that is completely non-intuitive. If your idea was to sit down and get something done be prepared to suffer. Simple operations like assigning actionscript can be extremely confusing, as you might not understand "where" the script is being applied. A totally obvious feature called "stroke" which outlines text easily is totally missing from Flash. You might think it would be a snap to put a black outline on some white text, but it's more like rocket science. You can either use a glow filter that doesn't really do the job or get ready to break apart each and every letter so you can apply the ink bottle. The world isn't fair, is it? This program is worth about a hundred bucks.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's better than the 8-Series..., March 24, 2008

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Ian Carlson (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Flash CS3 Professional [OLD VERSION] (DVD-ROM)

Flash CS3 has a wonderful interface including newly integrated tabs for windows like Scene, Color, Align, etc. It's more user-friendly than before and you can choose to do more things with your published flash than before as well. A very good tool for the web animator.