Adobe Flash CS3 Professional

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, presentations, games, and more. Depend on Flash CS3 and Adobe Flash Player to ensure your content reaches the widest possible audience.

Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® Flash® CS3: (my favorites are in bold)

1. Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® import—Import Photoshop (PSD) and Illustrator (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Flash CS3. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. ActionScript 3.0 development—Save time with the new ActionScript 3.0 language, featuring improved performance, increased flexibility, and more intuitive and structured development.
5. 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.
6. Adobe Device Central—Design, preview, and test mobile device content, including interactive Adobe Flash Lite™ applications and interfaces, using Adobe Device Central, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite 3.
7. 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, and more.
8. 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.
9. 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, ActionScript™ generated content, and runtime effects such as drop shadow and blur.
10. Sophisticated video tools—Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive download Flash Video 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.
11. 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.