Macromedia Studio 8 for Win/Mac [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Use advanced graphics, text, animation, video, and audio tools with precision control and quality
• Batch processing, batch encoding, and other general performance enhancements
• Reliable round-tripping between Macromedia products, for better design, development, and maintenance
• Full integration with third-party products
• Multiple support tools for superior Web development workflow

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• 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: B000CS3S04
• Item model number: 38000105
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 13, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,447 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #7 in Software > Web Development > Web Effects > Objects
  • #25 in Software > Web Development > Professional Development
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Macromedia Studio 8 is the essential software suite used to design, develop and maintain interactive online experiences. Combining the latest releases of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper, Studio 8 offers web designers and developers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and simplified workflow. In short, Studio 8 is a must-have suite for start-to-finish design, development and maintenance of websites, applications, games, interactive presentations, and mobile content.

Stay focused on the code in Dreamweaver 8 with Code Collapse. See what's new in Dreamweaver 8

Flash Professional 8 features integrated and stand-alone video encoding and support for alpha transparency. See what's new in Flash Professional 8

Fireworks 8 sports new batch image processing options. See what's new in Fireworks 8

Contribute 3 frees designers and developers from web maintenance.

Expressing Creativity with Efficiency
Studio 8 offers the broadest range of creative tools for expressiveness and creation of vibrant interactive media, websites, or applications. Enhanced tools let you use advanced graphics, text, animation, video, and audio tools with precision control and quality. From simple animated graphics to sophisticated interactive experiences, Studio 8 provides a full suite of tools for limitless creativity that allow you to get more done. Studio 8 also speeds the design, development, and maintenance process with reliable round-tripping between Macromedia products, integration with third-party products, and key features such as batch processing, batch encoding, and general performance enhancements to speed up your projects. Support for both Windows and Mac OS X enables Studio 8 to deliver projects on the platform of choice. This allows you to deliver projects that support the widest range of operating systems, browsers, and server technologies. Develop applications using HTML, XHTML, XML, ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP with drag-and-drop visual tools and components, code libraries, and extensive code-editing support.

Studio 8 Applications
Included with Studio 8 is Dreamweaver 8, the industry-leading web development tool that enables users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications. Dreamweaver is the quintessential and standard-setting web development application available today. Flash Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. Flash Professional is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash Professional, you can design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.

Also included with Studio 8 is Fireworks 8. Fireworks lets you balance maximum image quality with minimum compression size as you create, edit and optimize images for the web with precise control. Create animated rollovers and pop-up menus with Firework's intuitive visual tools, and utilize round-trip editing capabilities with Dreamweaver and Flash Professional for even greater efficiency. Contribute 3 helps to free designers and developers from web maintenance, allowing others to easily update content in a controlled environment that preserves the integrity of the website. Contribute 3 makes website maintenance easy and lets everyone in an organization publish to websites and bring them alive with up-to-date information. Simply put, there is no easier or more affordable way to keep web content current and relevant. Contribute 3 redefines web publishing, making it an activity open to everybody, every day. And finally, FlashPaper 2 lets anyone easily convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets and other file types into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with a single click.

A True All-in-One Tool
Studio 8 makes the best practices of web design and development available to everyone, from users working on their first website to those developing advanced web applications. Design and develop with confidence that Studio projects will integrate with and support the latest technologies, platforms, operating systems, and industry standards from CSS and XML to the latest Flash Player 8 client runtime. Studio 8 makes integrating video into projects easier than ever. Drag and drop Flash Video in Dreamweaver 8 to quickly incorporate video to websites and applications. The new high-quality video encoder in Flash Professional 8 is integrated (or works standalone) for distributed batch encoding.

Plus, new run-time support for Alpha channels, embedded cue points in Flash Video files, and the improved, easily-skinnable video playback component will engage more viewers. Going from on-screen to online is effortless using many nonlinear editing systems that export natively to the Flash Video format. Deliver rich content efficiently and consistently with the Flash standard file format (SWF); its structure (and compact size) is optimized for streaming to web users at all connection speeds. The Macromedia Flash Player, installed on over 98 percent of desktops globally, reaches the widest possible audience. Studio 8 parallels the introduction of Flash Player 8, which now hosts more interactive features, lightweight experiences, better performance, and easy auto-updating for the ultimate viewing experience.

Studio 8 also works and plays well with others. In addition to its integrated workflows across Macromedia products, Studio 8 supports optimized workflows with third-party applications. Import graphical elements, EPS and PDF files from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Creative Suite. Add content from Microsoft Office products with design accuracy using the improved copy and paste in Dreamweaver, or use FlashPaper to convert Microsoft files into PDF or FlashPaper files with one click.

Product Description

Studio 8 is the essential software suite for designing, developing and maintaining interactive online experiences. Combining the latest release of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute, and FlashPaper, Studio 8 offers web designers and developers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency, and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content. Features Flash Pro 8. Support for Windows and Mac OS X enables Studio to deliver projects on a wide range of operating systems, browsers, and server technologies

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB product! But don't pay full price!, December 19, 2006

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Michael Smith "Michael" (Venice, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Studio 8 for Win/Mac [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

As a current college student studying for my E-Commerce degree, purchasing Studio 8 was almost mandatory for the field I have chosen. But, as a full time student, I only paid $250 for this product. If you know a full time student, or are one yourself, then there are numerous websites out there that sell at massive discounts to students. Keep that in mind.
Overall, this product is superb, much more superior than FrontPage. Studio 8 includes Dreamweaver 8, Flash Pro. 8, Fireworks 8, Contribute 3 and FlashPaper 2. Please be aware though, that Studio 8 is a very high end product that requires some study, practice and patience until you learn how all these programs work together. I was not happy with the bundled how-to guides, so I bought a book at the book store for $20 that goes into greater detail. Studio 8 surprises me every day in its power and flexibility.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamweaver really is a dream, January 29, 2007

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liz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Studio 8 for Win/Mac [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I had been building websites stickly using code in Notepad. But now that I have Dreamweaver...things are so much quicker. It has the ability to write the code for you (including html, xhtml, css, javascript and much more)...or if you prefer, you can write it yourself. My favorite thing right now is the verification check and browser check. These functions check to make sure all parts of your site works in all browsers.

I can't comment on the rest of the software: Firworks, flash, etc...because I haven't used them yet.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent software, but you need to know what you're doing..., August 6, 2006

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Carlos "Carlos Says Relax" (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Studio 8 for Win/Mac [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This is a very complete and sophisticated software to do websites, fix photos and other things, but some of the things it has are quite confusing, so you need a lot of practice and read the manual very carefuly to do what you want to do, otherwise, you won't be able to do anything, since it has a lot of thechnical words and terms. Overall, it's a good software, very good if you're planning on making flash movies and websites.