Macromedia Flash Pro 8 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION]

by Macromedia

Product Features

• New filter effects, shadows, and advanced animation.
• Easily create and deliver great interactive video.
• Create, test and deliver content for millions of mobile devices.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.9 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: B000ALM5ZM
• Item model number: PFD080D000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,961 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #66 in Software > Web Development > Web Effects > Animation
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great program, a little pricey., January 21, 2006

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Kyle Hunt (NY ,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Flash Pro 8 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Macromedia Flash is essential if you are looking to make professional web pages that are very design oriented and interactive (animations, games, rollover images, anything). With that said, I do believe that the price is a little too high for the product.

All in all, it is worth the buy if, like I said, you are serious about web development. Check any top notch website and you are guaranteed to find flash.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars??? Please!, December 26, 2005

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Relentless "skepticalbeliever" (Gainesville, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Flash Pro 8 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

OK, you know when Adobe (they own Macromedia) is out to get your money when two upgrades from their product lines are actually downgrades, in my opinion. My first disappointment was with Photoshop CS2; slow, and they did away with great functions that were present in v7 and CS. Now with Flash Pro 8: what's the big difference between v8 vs. v7 to be worth the upgrade price? None that I can see. This upgrade is simply not worth it--period! You'll be better off staying/buying Flash Pro 7.
Don't beleive me? Try the free 30-day demo they offer.

4.0 out of 5 stars it was fun while it lasted, July 15, 2010

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Michael Coughlin "ctcrmcou" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Flash Pro 8 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Actually, I never used the GUI. Everything I wrote was with actionscript. You can do more if you have the time to learn the object model, and build your own library.

Alas, in the end, computers just are not fast enough (that is, the customer's computers) to really build seemless dimensional graphics with flash unless you have much fancier tools. And besides, apple does not support adobe (and why should any of us for that matter), so in the end I think its wasted effort as the technology market changes.

It was fun during the early, less complicated days of Macromedia, much like DOS, C, HTML, Clipper, and even Visual Basic, but those days are over now.