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Adobe Flash Pro CS4 [Mac] [OLD VERSION]

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I really wish I had never "upgraded"
Flash CS4 is slow and unstable. It crashes all the time.
I am a character animator. The new tween messed up the work flow I have used since Flash MX. You can still use the "classic" tween but it is clear Adobe does not want you to use them. The IK tool is useless. You can not use it with classic tweens, and the layers must be next to each other. As in if you have a character that has long hair (symbol on a layer) that goes behind the torso, you can not parent it to the head symbol with the torso symbol or neck symbol on a layer in between. Minor things like changing the keyboard shortcut from "Z" to "M" so irritating. It used to be that most short cuts for basic actions were the same between Adobe programs. Then there is the smooth and straighten tools. When drawing I smooth an d straighten constantly as I draw using Keyboard shortcuts assigned to hotkeys on my WACOM tablet. CS4 has a new smooth and straighten that opens a dialogue box and doesn't work any better. To use the old style smooth/straighten tools you have to be in the arrow tool, click on them on the tool pallet and can not assign hot keys to them. Now that Adobe bought Macromedia they have a monopoly on 2D graphics they seem determined to create slow bloated junk. Why Adobe didn't make the drawing tools work better, add something useful like and art brush and get rid of all the pork that eats up RAM and processor power I don't know. I have a nice quad core mac pro with 14 gigs of ram. It should run like a dream. But it sits there like a pile of...
I may have to save my pennies and move my animating over to toonboom but I will always have to have Adobe so I do hope they get there act together.

Flash has been out for half a year and still doesn't work for me at all. It will crash every time I create a symbol! This means that I can't use it for very long obviously! Therefore Flash is completely worthless to me at the moment. Fireworks has very similar problems with crashing. Very Frustrating for an upgrade I spent $600 on (for Adobe Design Premium.)