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

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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.
• ASIN: B000ALM5ZM
• Item model number: PFD080D000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,067 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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

By	Kyle Hunt (NY ,USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

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

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.

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flash 8, Fantastic !, November 1, 2005

By	J. Mcswiney "skippy_73" (Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am so happy with the new Flash 8, and am even more delighted that Macromedia re-introduced the 'normal mode' (although not called normal mode anymore) for designers. They have also introduced a new way of skinning video, and I absolutely love the new On2 VP6 video codec. There are so many improvements from MX 2004 that I would be writing forever to tell you about them. As a senior designer who has been using flash since Flash 3, I think that Flash 8 Pro is the best ever yet! Well done Macromedia.