Macromedia Studio 8 Upgrade Win/Mac

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Product Features

• Dreamweaver 8 to develop websites and applications.
• Flash Professional 8 to author rich interactive content.
• Fireworks 8 to create and optimize web images.
• Now includes Contribute 3 to manage web content.
• Now includes FlashPaper 2 to convert files to PDF and FlashPaper.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AQHMPA
• Item model number: WPD080D100
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,122 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

New Upgrade Policy! All previous versions of Macromedia Studio, FreeHand, Flash and Fireworks are eligible for upgrade to Macromedia Studio 8 via this product. Studio 8 is the must-have suite for anyone creating websites, web applications, interactive presentations, or mobile content. Use Flash Professional to author rich interactive content. Fireworks provides optimization tools to balance quality images with compression. Dreamweaver delivers clean, standards-based applications. Contribute makes managing web content a shared team task, and FlashPaper’s one-click process converts any document into PDF and FlashPaper files for the web. Studio 8 speeds the design, development and maintenance process, with round-tripping between Macromedia products, integration with 3rd party applications and features like batch rendering, batch encoding and general performance enhancements to let you get it done, faster. Studio 8 offers the broadest range of creative tools to let you express yourself as you create interactive media, websites or applications. Use advanced graphics, text, animation, video and audio tools with precision control and quality. From simple animated graphics to sophisticated interactive experiences, Studio 8 gives you a full suite of tools for limitless creative expression. With Studio’s support for Windows and Mac OS X, you can work on the platform of choice—and deliver content for the platform of choice. Deliver projects that support the widest range of browsers and server technologies, and leverage Flash Player, installed on over 98% of connected computers. Take your experience farther, and use Studio’s tools to create content for millions of mobile handheld devices and phones.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Top 8 Reasons to Buy, or Upgrade, to Macromedia Studio 8, September 16, 2005

By	Poet and Lyric (Harrisburg, PA, USA) - See all my reviews

1. CSS layout visualization
Dreamweaver 8 now gives you visual aides at design time to outline CSS layout borders or color CSS layouts to reveal complex nesting schemes and improve selection. Click on the CSS layout for valuable Tooltips, such as ID and padding and margin and border settings.
2. Code collapse
Dreamweaver 8 allows you to focus only on the code in use. Hide and expand blocks of code by selection or by tag to stay organized.
3. Compare files
Dreamweaver 8 can quickly compare files to identify what has changed, whether it is two local files, a file on the local and remote, or two files on the remote server.
4. Alpha channel support
Flash Professional 8 now has support for a true alpha channel at run-time. This revolutionary new capability provides the unique ability to overlay video composited with a transparent (even semi-transparent) alpha channel over other Flash content. Create dynamic presentations such as splashing water, smoke and fire effects, as well as presenters shot in front of a blue screen.
5. FlashType - high-quality font rendering engine
Flash Professional 8 has a revolutionary new font rendering engine that provides clear, highest-quality font rendering, FlashType makes small fonts look amazingly clear and greatly improves readability. Choose from several options for font rendering, each optimized for different use cases. Optimize font rendering with the new custom anti-aliasing feature in Flash Professional.
6. Filters
With Flash Professional 8, you can create more compelling designs with built-in filter effects like drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, gradient bevel, and color adjust. Filters are visual effects applied to MovieClips and text fields and are natively supported and rendered in real time by Flash Player.
7. Higher-quality video codec
Flash Player 8 has a brand new, far more advanced video codec, On2 VP6. This codec provides superior video quality that is competitive with today's best video codecs at a much smaller file size.
8. The most significant upgrade ever
All prior versions of Studio, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks are now eligible for the the same single upgrade price of $388.99 (save $10.01 on Amazon.com as of 09/13/05)!
Thats right, you can now upgrade to Macromedia Studio 8 if you own any one of the following products: Studio MX 2004, Studio MX, Dreamweaver MX 2004 or earlier, Flash MX 2004, Flash MX Professional 2004, Flash MX or earlier, Fireworks MX 2004 or earlier, FreeHand MX or earlier, Dreamweaver UltraDev, Dreamweaver/Fireworks Studio, UltraDev/Fireworks Studio, Flash/FreeHand Studio, ColdFusion Studio, JRun Studio (Any Version)

Please Note...
Macromedia Freehand is no longer available in Macromedia Studio 8, but is still available as a stand alone program. Freehand was replaced by the addition of Contribute and FlashPaper to better fulfill the typical design-develop-maintain workflow needs of Macromedia customers.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fear Not: It's GOOD, December 1, 2005

By	Fussy "ran14813" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

I was the harshest critic of Flash 2004 (don't believe me? Go read my review), and for good reason. It was a one-star bomb.

Macromedia came to its senses and outdid itself with Studio 8. (If you are a Flash-only owner, upgrade to Studio. For only about a hundred dollars more, you get a fantastic suite of software thrown in...what a deal!)

This version of Flash is a return to the reliability of MX. No more PC crashes, the "normal" Actionscript mode has been reinstated, and there are all kinds of nifty surprises (like drop shadows).

I was bowled over by the effortlessness of the video/FLV capabilities. Video used to be a complicated thing; in the new Flash, you can actually get it working without cracking open a tutorial or a book! That's the mark of intuitive software. Kudos!

Bottom line: Highly recommended.

8 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't be confused by hate!, October 16, 2005

By	Alejandro Lopez - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For any true loyal flash programmer/designer this is the update to get. Major improvement from MX, and MX04. Dreamweaver 8 starting to look like homesite which is the better. Don't let hate comments confused your choice, this is a well worth upgrade.