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Integrate virtually any major file format screenshot
Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats

Support for more than 40 video, audio, and image file formats

Incorporate content in virtually every major format, including SWF, DVD-Video, and other video formats, as well as the broadest range of audio and graphics formats, including bitmaps, vectors, text, and 3D.

Strong video capabilities

Create an enhanced multimedia experience using H.264-video integration that lets you play full-screen, high-definition video in your multimedia applications and games. Stream audio and video over the Internet using Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) support.

Enriched audio capabilities

Make your multimedia applications and games sound as real as they look with state-of-the-art audio capabilities that include 5.1 channel surround sound, 16-channel sound mixing, and advanced filters.

Powerful 3D support

Incorporate 3D to deliver more engaging experiences. Rapidly create rich 3D environments using millions of ready-made 3D models available via Google SketchUp, and take advantage of DirectX 9 support for native 3D rendering.

Advanced physics with NVIDIA PhysX support

Build games with realistic collisions and create simulations that model real-world gravity and other forces. The NVIDIA® PhysX™ physics engine delivers advanced dynamic motion and interaction.

Support for Adobe Flash 9 software and video created with Flash technology

Expand your creative options by seamlessly importing content created with Adobe® Flash® 9 software into your applications. Launch Flash (version 8 or earlier) from within Adobe Director® software and have your changes saved automatically.

Unicode support

Easily localize your games, applications, demos, training courses, and prototypes for international markets with Unicode support.

Enhanced text rendering engine

Display smooth, crisp text in your demos, courses, games, and other applications with a more powerful text engine that improves font rendering.

New datatype

Access and manipulate binary data using ByteArray datatype.

Enhanced Script Browser

Save time working with script-sensitive movies using the enhanced Script Browser, which provides click-and-script convenience; easy access to information about functions, events, keywords, and commands; and a complete Lingo and JavaScript dictionary.

Bitmap filters

Achieve an even wider variety of rich visual effects, including blur, drop shadow, bevel, glow, and more, with bitmap filters that you can apply through the user interface or scripting.

Xtra plug-ins

Extend your authoring environment, as well as the playback engine, with an ever-expanding ecosystem of third-party Xtras.

Easy multiversion output

Broaden your market reach by authoring once and publishing across platforms and technologies with output that is customer-ready for virtually all computers, kiosks, DVDs, CDs, and the web.

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