Flash Professional CS5.5 / Features

Create and edit motion tweens using the Timeline and Motion Editor, and use inverse kinematics to create natural motion for character animation.

Design artwork precisely and efficiently with smart shapes and powerful design tools.

Get global bidirectional language support and advanced print-quality typography APIs via the Text Layout Framework. Format text in columns and maintain layout with greater fidelity when importing content from other Adobe products.

Add interesting visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips to create expressive content.

Easily incorporate video into your projects, and convert video clips efficiently with the included Adobe Media Encoder application.

Speed up project completion by using convenient prewritten code snippets for common actions, animation, multitouch gestures, and more. Also discover an easier way to learn the ActionScript® 3.0 language.

Collaborate on projects more easily with a new XML-based implementation of the FLA file format. Uncompressed projects appear and act like folders, allowing you to quickly manage and modify assets such as images.

Perform roundtrip edits of bitmap images with Adobe Photoshop® CS5, import FLA files directly from Adobe InDesign® CS5.5, and integrate closely with Adobe Flash Builder 4.5.

Speed up development with the built-in ActionScript editor that features custom class code hinting and code completion. Quickly grasp the fundamentals of ActionScript, and efficiently reference your own or external code libraries.

Use Adobe Device Central to plan, preview, and test content for a wide array of mobile and consumer devices.

Work more efficiently through integration with Adobe CS Live online services ^{1, 2}, including Acrobat.com, Adobe CS Review, and SiteCatalyst® NetAverages™.

Work on your operating system of choice: Mac OS or Windows®.

Reach audiences on the latest Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes and on Android™ and iOS devices.

Manage FLA project files that target multiple devices. Share code and assets across documents and device targets to efficiently create, test, package, and deploy content for a wide range of screens and devices.

Save time when sharing symbols and motion paths across documents that are optimized for different screen sizes.

Preserve important document structure when copying layers across multiple files and projects.

Use the new pick whip to preview and visually add more than 20 new code snippets, including ones for creating mobile and AIR applications, use of the accelerometer, and multitouch gestures.

Publish content quickly and more efficiently with a redesigned Publish Settings dialog box.

Lock inverse kinematics bones to the stage and set stage level movement restrictions to selected bones. Create multiple spans per layer, and define more complex movement of armatures, such as walk cycles.

Ensure consistency and integrity of your files, even after computer crashes or power outages.

Use asset caching to reduce the compile time of documents that use embedded fonts and sound files, and deploy rich content faster.

Benefit from numerous user-requested improvements, including improved controls for the Text Layout Framework.

Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and the cue points property inspector. See and play back FLV components directly on the stage.

Work more closely with developers who can use your Flash project files with Flash Builder to test, debug, and publish your content more efficiently.

Add expressive, lifelike animation properties — like spring and bounce — with motion attributes for the Bone tool. An improved inverse kinematics engine provides more realistic and complex physics movements within a simple, familiar interface.

Add advanced animation effects with a comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain, and draw stylized lines or patterns with multiple objects.

Gain control over individual animation attributes, and apply tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes to motion with Bezier handles.

Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformations to any object.

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