[font=\"Arial\"][color=\"purple\"]Flash MX[/color][/font]
Create rich Internet content and applications
Macromedia Flash MX provides everything you need to create and deploy rich Web content and powerful applications!
Whether you are designing motion graphics or building data-driven applications, Flash MX has the tools you need to produce great results and deliver the best user experiences across multiple platforms and devices.
New video, colour management and enhanced graphic tools extend creative capabilities. Pre-built templates, UI components, improved timeline and tighter integration with Macromedia FreeHand and Fireworks reduce development time. Enhanced XML support and ActionScript programming tools allow designers and developers to leverage their existing skills and provide a complete Internet application development environment.
Key Features
Video Support
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Create distinctive rich content and applications that incorporate video. Import any standard video file supported by QuickTime or Windows Media Player, including MPEG, DV (Digital Video), MOV (QuickTime), and AVI. Manipulate, scale, rotate, skew, mask, and animate video objects, and make them interactive using scripting. Video is natively supported in Macromedia Flash Player 6 with the addition of the Sorenson Spark codec.
Familiar UI With New Property Inspector and Answers Panel
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Learn Macromedia Flash MX quickly with its familiar and flexible development environment. User interface enhancements include collapsible panels and a new context-sensitive Property inspector that highlights what tools and objects can be used in relation to a selected element.
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]The user interface also contains a new Answers panel that connects the web to the development tool and provides useful information to designers and developers within the user interface.
Dynamic Loading of Images and Sound
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Macromedia Flash Player 6 now dynamically loads external JPEG and MP3 media files during runtime, which results in smaller file sizes and the developer\'s easy modification of the content without having to reauthor it.
New Graphic Design Tools and Colour Mixer Enhancements
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]With the new Free Transform tool and Pixel-Level Snapping Control which provide enhanced creative freedom and control over graphic content designers work faster.
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Colour Mixer enhancements make creating, editing, and using colours and gradients easier than ever before with consistent colour selection models and interfaces.
Optimised Application Server Integration
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Use XML structured data to populate visually rich user interfaces to create sales forms, virtual shopping carts, customer surveys, and stock availability matrixes. Persistent XML connectivity allows real-time information to be displayed.
Develop and Playback Accessible Content
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Macromedia Flash Player 6 now supports assistive technologies such as screen readers through support of Microsoft Active Accessibility.
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]In addition, Macromedia Flash MX now integrates tools for creating accessible content. To add descriptive text to animations and user interface elements, select an item and enter the appropriate description. Users with disabilities will be able to experience your content.
Multilingual Support
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Vertical Text and support for Unicode in Macromedia Flash MX enables developers to rapidly build multilingual content and applications. Macromedia Flash MX will ship in 11 languages, including three new languages: Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
Pre-Built User Interface Components
[color=\"orange\"]•[/color]Accelerate development with a core set of pre-built, customizable components for common application interfaces, including scrollbars, rich text fields, input buttons, radio buttons and check boxes, and list and combo boxes. These components ensure a common user experience across rich applications created with Macromedia Flash MX.
Flash MX / Flash MX 2004 / Flash MX Pro 2004
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Flash MX / Flash MX 2004 / Flash MX Pro 2004
Last edited by Endo on Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Flash MX / Flash MX 2004 / Flash MX Pro 2004
[font=\"Arial\"][color=\"orange\"]Flash MX 2004[/color][/font]
Industry standard for creating effective rich content!
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is the industry standard tool for creating effective rich content across desktops and devices. Designers and developers use Macromedia Flash MX 2004 to accelerate projects while maintaining a high degree of creative control!
Jumpstart projects with Templates and Components and take advantage of the vast Macromedia online Resource Library. Speed workflow by directly importing media including digital video, PDF and EPS files. Add interactivity with powerful scripting. Enhance content with custom effects from third-party extensions. Deliver consistently to over 97% of Internet users worldwide across all major platforms and on popular devices with Macromedia Flash Player.
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 is the top-of-the-line Flash development environment for advanced content and applications!
New Features
Flash MX 2004 New Features
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Timeline Effects and Behaviours - Simplify common timeline and scripting tasks with new Timeline Effects and Behaviours. Create common timeline animations with one-step Timeline Effects, reducing the need for excessive keyframing.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Extensibility Architecture and Third-Party Extensions - Third-party developers can extend Macromedia Flash with significant new capabilities thanks to the new javascript API extensibility architecture. Create charts and graphs, animate text effects, deploy high-resolution interactive bitmaps, add raster effects and design 3D graphics, all without leaving Macromedia Flash.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Improved Runtime Performance - Take advantage of an enhanced compiler and the new Macromedia Flash Player 7, which together boost runtime performance by 2-10x for common applications. Improvements include faster graphics display, video playback, component initialisation and XML parsing, as well as better memory usage.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]PDF and EPS File Support - Integrate rich-media content faster with direct support for PDF and EPS (Adobe Illustrator 10) files. Import and map files into the Macromedia Flash interface with a variety of settings, such as segmenting layers and pages into the library and timeline.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Alias Text - Produce crisp, highly legible text that\'s optimised for display at small sizes and on low-resolution displays such as mobile phones and devices.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Productivity Features - Improve your workflow with new features such as a built-in Spell-Checker, Search and Replace, a Deployment Kit and reusable Publish settings. Create macros with the new History panel and with custom commands. Ensure consistent text formatting between Macromedia Flash and HTML content with Cascading Style Sheets.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Globalisation Tools - Leverage full Unicode support to use, render and save any font and encoding supported by your operating system, including double-byte character sets.
Key Features
Accelerate Projects
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Accelerate projects with productivity and performance improvements that inspire creativity and improve user experiences. Enhanced tools make it easier than ever to create animation, add interactivity and incorporate rich-media assets.
Control Results
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Control results with robust tools that improve quality and ensure user satisfaction. Deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, as well as e-learning and user interfaces.
Extend Flash
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Extend the application to add functionality and customize the workspace. Leverage the strength of the Flash community with the application\'s new extensible architecture.
Industry standard for creating effective rich content!
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is the industry standard tool for creating effective rich content across desktops and devices. Designers and developers use Macromedia Flash MX 2004 to accelerate projects while maintaining a high degree of creative control!
Jumpstart projects with Templates and Components and take advantage of the vast Macromedia online Resource Library. Speed workflow by directly importing media including digital video, PDF and EPS files. Add interactivity with powerful scripting. Enhance content with custom effects from third-party extensions. Deliver consistently to over 97% of Internet users worldwide across all major platforms and on popular devices with Macromedia Flash Player.
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 is the top-of-the-line Flash development environment for advanced content and applications!
New Features
Flash MX 2004 New Features
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Timeline Effects and Behaviours - Simplify common timeline and scripting tasks with new Timeline Effects and Behaviours. Create common timeline animations with one-step Timeline Effects, reducing the need for excessive keyframing.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Extensibility Architecture and Third-Party Extensions - Third-party developers can extend Macromedia Flash with significant new capabilities thanks to the new javascript API extensibility architecture. Create charts and graphs, animate text effects, deploy high-resolution interactive bitmaps, add raster effects and design 3D graphics, all without leaving Macromedia Flash.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Improved Runtime Performance - Take advantage of an enhanced compiler and the new Macromedia Flash Player 7, which together boost runtime performance by 2-10x for common applications. Improvements include faster graphics display, video playback, component initialisation and XML parsing, as well as better memory usage.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]PDF and EPS File Support - Integrate rich-media content faster with direct support for PDF and EPS (Adobe Illustrator 10) files. Import and map files into the Macromedia Flash interface with a variety of settings, such as segmenting layers and pages into the library and timeline.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Alias Text - Produce crisp, highly legible text that\'s optimised for display at small sizes and on low-resolution displays such as mobile phones and devices.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Productivity Features - Improve your workflow with new features such as a built-in Spell-Checker, Search and Replace, a Deployment Kit and reusable Publish settings. Create macros with the new History panel and with custom commands. Ensure consistent text formatting between Macromedia Flash and HTML content with Cascading Style Sheets.
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Globalisation Tools - Leverage full Unicode support to use, render and save any font and encoding supported by your operating system, including double-byte character sets.
Key Features
Accelerate Projects
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Accelerate projects with productivity and performance improvements that inspire creativity and improve user experiences. Enhanced tools make it easier than ever to create animation, add interactivity and incorporate rich-media assets.
Control Results
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Control results with robust tools that improve quality and ensure user satisfaction. Deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, as well as e-learning and user interfaces.
Extend Flash
[color=\"purple\"]•[/color]Extend the application to add functionality and customize the workspace. Leverage the strength of the Flash community with the application\'s new extensible architecture.
Last edited by Endo on Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Flash MX / Flash MX 2004 / Flash MX Pro 2004
[font=\"Arial\"][color=\"purple\"]Flash MX Pro 2004[/color][/font]
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is the industry standard tool for creating effective rich content across desktops and devices. Designers and developers use Macromedia Flash MX 2004 to accelerate projects while maintaining a high degree of creative control.
Jumpstart projects with Templates and Components and take advantage of the vast Macromedia online Resource Library. Speed workflow by directly importing media including digital video, PDF and EPS files. Add interactivity with powerful scripting. Enhance content with custom effects from third-party extensions. Deliver consistently to over 97% of Internet users worldwide across all major platforms and on popular devices with Macromedia Flash Player.
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 is the top-of-the-line Flash development environment for advanced content and applications. The Professional edition includes all of the features of Flash MX 2004, plus powerful tools for creating forms-based data-driven applications, interactive presentations, high quality video experiences and easy deployment to mobile phones and devices.
New Features
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Forms - Build applications in a familiar forms-based development environment that\'s similar to other visual development tools, such as Microsoft Visual Basic. Design a form, add components and build application navigation and logic with ActionScript.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Data Connection Features - Create dynamic data-driven applications using data sources such as web services and application servers. Using data connection components you can quickly connect to a data source simply by entering the URL to the data source.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Data Bound Components - Quickly build application interfaces using data bound components. Display data returned by a web service or application server simply by binding the data to the components in your application. You can connect to a data source and display the data returned without writing a line of code.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Advanced Components - Build sophisticated user interfaces with additional advanced components such as a data grid, calendar, menu, an accordion tabbed pane and many more!
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Project Panel and Source Control - Easily manage and publish all files to your site through a single view in the Project panel. Synchronise project files with your source management system through a variety of options: the pre-built Microsoft Visual SourceSafe integration; an API to connect to your source control system of choice or file-level locking on either a local, network or FTP file system.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Flash Video Exporter - Export video directly to Macromedia Flash from within leading professional video-editing and encoding tools such as Avid Xpress/Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, Discreet Cleaner and Anystream Agility.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Improved Video Encoder - Produce targeted bandwidth video streams with enhanced image quality by using the improved video encoder. Options include variable bit-rate (VBR), selectable motion estimation quality, de-interlacing and high-quality scaling.
Key Features
Robust Development
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Rapidly build effective, data-driven applications in the robust development environment of Flash MX Professional.
Professional Video Capabilities
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Leverage professional video capabilities to deliver high-quality video with unique interactivity and custom interfaces to the widest target audience.
Broad Device Deployment
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Develop for mobile phones, PDAs and other devices without learning specialised skills for each platform.
Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is the industry standard tool for creating effective rich content across desktops and devices. Designers and developers use Macromedia Flash MX 2004 to accelerate projects while maintaining a high degree of creative control.
Jumpstart projects with Templates and Components and take advantage of the vast Macromedia online Resource Library. Speed workflow by directly importing media including digital video, PDF and EPS files. Add interactivity with powerful scripting. Enhance content with custom effects from third-party extensions. Deliver consistently to over 97% of Internet users worldwide across all major platforms and on popular devices with Macromedia Flash Player.
Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 is the top-of-the-line Flash development environment for advanced content and applications. The Professional edition includes all of the features of Flash MX 2004, plus powerful tools for creating forms-based data-driven applications, interactive presentations, high quality video experiences and easy deployment to mobile phones and devices.
New Features
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Forms - Build applications in a familiar forms-based development environment that\'s similar to other visual development tools, such as Microsoft Visual Basic. Design a form, add components and build application navigation and logic with ActionScript.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Data Connection Features - Create dynamic data-driven applications using data sources such as web services and application servers. Using data connection components you can quickly connect to a data source simply by entering the URL to the data source.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Data Bound Components - Quickly build application interfaces using data bound components. Display data returned by a web service or application server simply by binding the data to the components in your application. You can connect to a data source and display the data returned without writing a line of code.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Advanced Components - Build sophisticated user interfaces with additional advanced components such as a data grid, calendar, menu, an accordion tabbed pane and many more!
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Project Panel and Source Control - Easily manage and publish all files to your site through a single view in the Project panel. Synchronise project files with your source management system through a variety of options: the pre-built Microsoft Visual SourceSafe integration; an API to connect to your source control system of choice or file-level locking on either a local, network or FTP file system.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Flash Video Exporter - Export video directly to Macromedia Flash from within leading professional video-editing and encoding tools such as Avid Xpress/Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, Discreet Cleaner and Anystream Agility.
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Improved Video Encoder - Produce targeted bandwidth video streams with enhanced image quality by using the improved video encoder. Options include variable bit-rate (VBR), selectable motion estimation quality, de-interlacing and high-quality scaling.
Key Features
Robust Development
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Rapidly build effective, data-driven applications in the robust development environment of Flash MX Professional.
Professional Video Capabilities
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Leverage professional video capabilities to deliver high-quality video with unique interactivity and custom interfaces to the widest target audience.
Broad Device Deployment
[color=\"yellow\"]•[/color]Develop for mobile phones, PDAs and other devices without learning specialised skills for each platform.
Last edited by Endo on Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.

