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March 27, 2007
Announcing Flash CS3 Professional
It's here! It's here! Today Adobe announced Creative Suite 3 which includes a huge new release of Flash, Flash CS3 Professional.
Here's a summary of the new release:
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software is the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, games, and more. Designers and developers working on both Macintosh and Windows systems depend on Flash and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player software to ensure their content reaches the widest possible audience.
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import
Import Adobe Photoshop (PSD) and Adobe Illustrator (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.
Convert animation to ActionScript
Instantly convert timeline animations into ActionScript 3.0 code that can be easily edited, reused, and leveraged by developers. Copy animations from one object to another.
Adobe interface
Enjoy a new, streamlined interface that emphasizes consistency with other Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications and can be customized to improve workflow and maximize stage space.
ActionScript 3.0 development
Save time with the new ActionScript 3.0 language, featuring improved performance, increased flexibility, and more intuitive and structured development.
Advanced debugger
Test content with a powerful, new ActionScript debugger that offers greater flexibility and user feedback, as well as consistency with Adobe Flex Builder 2 debugging.
Adobe Device Central
Design, preview, and test mobile device content using Adobe Device Central CS3, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite 3. Create and test interactive applications and interfaces viewable with Flash Lite software.
Rich drawing capabilities
Visually adjust shape properties on the stage with smart shape drawing tools, create precise vector illustrations with the new Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, paste illustrations from Illustrator CS3 into Flash CS3 Professional, and more.
User interface components
Create interactive content with new, lightweight, easily skinnable interface components for ActionScript 3.0. Visually modify components' look and feel with the drawing tools — no coding required.
Advanced QuickTime export
Render content published in a SWF file as a QuickTime video using the advanced QuickTime exporter. Export content that includes nested MovieClips, content generated with ActionScript language, and runtime effects such as drop shadow and blur.
Sophisticated video tools
Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive-download FLV content with comprehensive video support. Ensure the best video experience with a standalone video encoder, alpha channel support, a high-quality video codec, embedded cue points, video import support, QuickTime import, closed captioning, and much more.
Timesaving coding tools
Save coding time with new code editor enhancements. Focus on relevant code with code collapse and commenting, and jump to code errors with the error navigation feature.
View the full feature tour here.
Posted by mike.downey at March 27, 2007 01:49 AM
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whooohooooo
Posted by: Tink at March 27, 2007 03:53 AM
That's the manager!!!!!
Posted by: Savvas Malamas at March 27, 2007 04:30 AM
nice but..
shame on adobe- cross platform licensing still not solved, european pricing is double rip off american prices (20% VAT max in some EU countries, however flash upgrade costs almost twice for EU), bundles while quite clever - aren't flexible enough in product selection for enduser and generally approaches micros~1 way of business- spending half an hour understanding and combining upgrade abilities and options is way too cumbersome.
and still wondering- what your creative team is smoking: one day you create ultra-minimalistic flat icons for all your products, another day- every-possible color screaming packaging for the same product.. eeeemmm.. :s
Posted by: wee at March 27, 2007 04:33 AM
Hmm code editor enhancements.... did you not say we where not going to get them like some people fill out a form and say they will just use 3rd party code edits anyway?
Anyway from someone that want one good code editor in flash to not have to open 2 programs this is great!
Posted by: Hiro at March 27, 2007 06:42 AM
BTW I find out how to fix the adobe news firefox thing the only thing that is a problem is the version check you put it on 6 or something it does not work in that way I set the version to 2.9 and it did install good in firefox v2.0.0.3 :)
Posted by: Hiro at March 27, 2007 06:51 AM
Hi Mike, I am really excited about the new CS3 release but at the same time VERY disappointed that you guys make us European customers pay almost twice the amount for the same software as US customers have to pay. Do you hate us that much ;-) ..or are there actually good reasons for such a huge price difference? …please share those reasons with us so we might feel less ripped off.
Another thing I was wondering about will Flash CSS3 target the current Flash 9 player or will there be a new Player with new features. For example will there be support for RTL/Bidi text?
Thanks!
Posted by: Benny at March 27, 2007 09:30 AM
Mike,
What about 3D in flash. I know PaperVision is doing some great things... but what about native support for it? I know you are well aware about how 3D is becoming more and more popular, what is flash doing to make sure it doesn't get passed up?
Thanks!
Posted by: Scott Verti at March 27, 2007 01:02 PM
Good News. But why is FlexBuilder not included in one of the collections?
Posted by: Christoph Landers at March 28, 2007 11:14 AM
Any improvements in text handling in dynamic text fields -- superscripts, subscripts, ordered lists? I recall bitching about this here nearly 2 years ago.
Posted by: tzedekh at March 28, 2007 11:21 AM