Macromedia Studio 8 Released

[Tami]

Today Macromedia officially launched its new Studio 8 product, which is geared to streamline designing and publishing. Studio 8 is now available for pre-order at $999.00 USD or upgrades starting at $399.00 USD and will be shipping in mid-September. Macromedia is also offering a free Studio 8 backpack and free shipping for a limited time with all purchases.

From the [url=\"http://www.macromedia.com/software/studio/\"][u]Studio 8 Site[/u][/url]:

Why Studio
Get the complete toolset.

Studio 8 is the must-have suite for start-to-finish design, development and maintenance tools of websites, applications, games, interactive presentations, and mobile content.

Express creativity.

Studio 8 offers the broadest range of creative tools for expressiveness and creation of vibrant 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 provides a full suite of tools for limitless creativity.
Get more done.

Studio 8 speeds the design, development, and maintenance process, with reliable round-tripping between Macromedia products, integration with third-party products, and key features like batch processing, batch encoding, and general performance enhancements to get projects done faster.

Pick any platform.

Support for Windows and Mac OS X enables Studio to deliver projects on the platform of choice. Deliver projects that support the widest range of operating systems, browsers, and server technologies.

Studio 8 includes five Macromedia products:

[b]Dreamweaver 8.[/b] Enhanced CSS support, including a unified CSS panel and rendering improvements; visual authoring with XML data; workflow improvements like Code Collapse and file rollback; seamless integration with Flash Video, PHP 5, and ColdFusion MX 7; and much more.
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Flash Professional 8.[/b] Dazzling new motion graphics and animation effects, new Flash Video capability, a new text rendering engine, performance optimizations, special tools for creating mobile content, and much more.

[b]Fireworks 8. [/b]Strike the balance between image quality and size with optimization tools. Create, edit, and optimize vector and bitmap images for the web with new blend effects. Try new streamlined workflows and round-trip integration with Dreamweaver 8 and Flash Professional 8.

With this new version, Macromedia Studio 8 also includes two new products for web maintenance.

[b] Contribute 3.[/b] Keep your website content fresh and your resources focused using web content management tools and workflows. Subject matter experts can update web content in a controlled, template-based workflow, freeing designers and developers to focus on site design and development.
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FlashPaper 2.[/b] Now anyone can convert printable files into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with one click.

[Brock]

Hey,
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In other words I am getting Macromedia Studio 8...I am going to try and make my own flash site so if you want to try and bare with me please do /biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />



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