Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (Win) Upgrade

This upgrade version of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional will install only if you are a licensed user of Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Macromedia Flash Professional 8, or Macromedia Flash MX 2004.

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software is the industry-leading authoring environment for creating engaging interactive experiences. Deliver to audiences across platforms and devices. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software offers exciting new animation and collaboration tools, such as object-based animation, inverse kinematics, 3D translation and rotation tools, XFL support, and the ability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime.

Create and deliver rich interactive content:

• Animating in Flash just got easier
  Quickly create animations, easily modify motion paths, and enjoy complete control over individual animation attributes with object-based animation.
  

• Flash now does inverse kinematics
  Create chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects or quickly distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.
  

• Flash Player reaches 99% of Internet viewers
  Installed on more than 850 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash Player enables you to widely deliver powerful experiences created with Flash.
  

KEY FEATURES:

• Object-based animation
  Gain complete control over individual animation attributes with object-based animation, which applies tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes to motion with Bezier handles.

• 3D transformation
  Bringing perspective and dimension to your design can add an element of excitement and fun to any project. But until now, the ability to create 3D motion was available only to expert users via ActionScript or other sophisticated tools. Now, with Flash CS4, you can animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D transformation tools, greatly extending creative possibilities.

• Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool
  Create chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects, or quickly distort a single shape using the new Bones tool. Much like the bones in the human body form a skeleton that moves and behaves in a definitive way, the new Bones tool in Flash CS4 allows you to link a series of symbols together with "bones" that can be quickly and easily animated and then controlled relative to one another.

• Procedural modeling with Deco and Spray Brush
  Turn symbols into instant design tools. Apply symbols in a variety of ways: Quickly create kaleidoscope-like effects and apply fills using the Deco tool, or randomly spray symbols across any defined area using the Spray Brush. If you think Flash CS4 is all about technical stuff that does nothing for the design side of the brain, think again. The Deco tool is a fantastic new addition that literally blossoms forth with symmetry and creativity as you turn any symbol into an instant design element.

• Sophisticated video tools
  Leverage the Adobe Media Encoder and experience advanced video capabilities including embedded cue points, alpha channel support, and high-quality video codecs.

• Authoring for Adobe AIR
  Deliver interactive experiences to the desktop with new integrated capability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime. Adobe AIR, the technology that makes Flash experiences on the desktop possible, is now built into Flash CS4 Professional. By extending Flash beyond the browser with custom desktop experiences and branding opportunities, Adobe AIR introduces exciting new methods for delivering interactive content.

• New Adobe Creative Suite interface
  Boost your efficiency with intuitive panel docking and spring-loaded behaviors that streamline your interaction with tools throughout the Adobe Creative Suite editions.

• XFL support
  Open content from Adobe InDesign or After Effects software and retain file integrity. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional introduces support for XFL, a file format that allows for improved integration across the Creative Suite 4 family. Users can now easily export content from Adobe InDesign and Adobe After Effects to Flash. With XFL support, InDesign and After Effects users have new opportunities to begin using Flash.

• Delivery to the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player
  Continue to reach wide audiences around the world by delivering to the most popular media player on the Internet today.

• Motion Editor panel
  With the new object-based animation model in Flash CS4 Professional, keyframes take on a new and significant role. You can now experience granular, independent control over every keyframe parameter, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the Motion Editor panel. Offering even more command over the creative presentation of your animations, the Motion Editor panel allows you to graphically control easing using curves.

• Motion Presets panel
  Being efficient is a large part of being a successful designer or developer. To this end, Flash CS4 Professional provides a library of prebuilt animations to jump-start your project. A huge time-saver, motion presets are easy for anyone to create and use.

• Adobe Media Encoder with H.264 support
  Video content is fast becoming a first-class citizen on the web. As companies make the decision to add more video content to their online presence, designers and developers struggle to find that happy medium--video content that is high in quality but small in file size. With more and more people using their mobile devices to view video content, developers must be acutely aware of bandwidth issues--without budging an inch on quality. So it's no surprise that Adobe Flash Player 10 supports what has become the standard in high-quality/low-bandwidth video content--H.264.

Adobe Flash CS4: All Features List

Adobe Flash CS4: System Requirements and Language

Windows:

• 1GHz or faster processor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista)
• 1GB of RAM
• 3.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

Macintosh:

• PowerPC G5 or multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11-10.5.4
• 1GB of RAM
• 4GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

*This product may allow you to access certain features that are hosted online ("online services"), provided you have a high-speed Internet connection. The online services, and some features thereof, may not be available in all countries, languages, and/or currencies and may be discontinued in whole or in part without notice. Use of the online services is governed by separate terms of use and by the Adobe Online Privacy Policy, and access to these services may require user registration. Some online services, including services that are initially offered at no charge, may be subject to additional fees.

Activation
This product must be activated over the Internet or phone prior to use.

Adobe Flash CS4: System Requirements and Languages

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.