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Design, develop and maintain effective online experiences.

Studio 8 is the essential software suite used to design, develop and maintain interactive online experiences. Combining the latest releases of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper, Studio 8 offers web designers and developers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive experiences and mobile content.

Studio 8
Dreamweaver 8
Flash Professional 8
Fireworks 8

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Essential

Studio 8 is the must-have suite for anyone creating websites, web applications, interactive presentations, or mobile content. Use Flash Professional to author rich interactive content. Fireworks provides optimization tools to balance quality images with compression. Dreamweaver delivers clean, standards-based applications. Contribute makes managing web content a shared team task, and FlashPaper’s one-click process converts any document into PDF and FlashPaper files for the web.

Efficient

Studio 8 speeds the design, development and maintenance process, with round-tripping between Macromedia products, integration with 3rd party applications and features like batch rendering, batch encoding and general performance enhancements to let you get it done, faster.

Expressive

Studio 8 offers the broadest range of creative tools to let you express yourself as you create interactive media, websites or applications. Use advanced graphics, text, animation, video and audio tools with precision control and quality. From simple animated graphics to sophisticated interactive experiences, Studio 8 gives you a full suite of tools for limitless creative expression.

Multi-Platform

With Studio’s support for Windows and Mac OS X, you can work on the platform of choice—and deliver content for the platform of choice. Deliver projects that support the widest range of browsers and server technologies, and leverage Flash Player, installed on over 98% of connected computers. Take your experience farther, and use Studio’s tools to create content for millions of mobile handheld devices and phones.

Studio 8 offers

All the tools in one complete suite
Advanced design tools to create, edit, optimize and customize interactive content
Leading development tools to create clean, standards-based code
New Contribute web content management tools to keep websites fresh and resources focused

New FlashPaper tools for one-click conversion of documents into PDF and Flash files
Easiest way to add interactive video to websites and presentations

Efficient integration and round-tripping across products
Streamlined workflow with third party technologies and products

Dreamweaver 8

Dreamweaver 8 is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.

Best Practices

Visual authoring with XML data
CSS layout visualization
CSS rendering improvements
Style rendering toolbar
Accessibility: WCAG Priority 2 checkpoints
Improved WebDAV Efficiency

Efficiency

Background File Transfer
Guides
Zoom
Coding toolbar
Code collapse
Workspace layouts
Tabbed documents for the Mac
New starter pages
Improved site synchronization and check in/check out
Compare files
Paste special
Site relative references
Code editing improvements Integration

Integration

Support for ColdFusion MX 7
Support for PHP 5
Flash Video
Macromedia Web Publishing System
Updated O’Reilly reference material

Flash Professional 8

Flash Professional 8 is the industry’s most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.

Expressiveness

Graphic Filters such as Blur, Drop Shadow, Bevel and Glow
Blend modes
Cache as bitmap feature for improved run-time performance
Custom Easing for advanced animation control
Object-based drawing model
Improved Text Tool
Enhanced stroke properties
Image API for precise pixel control via ActionScript

Video

Intuitive workflow for easily building interactive video content
New high-quality video codec
Run-time support for Alpha channels
Stand-alone video encoder with batch processing
Embedded cue points in FLV files
Export Flash Video (FLV) from professional video tools using the Flash Video encoder plug-in
Improved, easily-skinnable Video Playback Component

Quality Experiences

Powerful anti-aliasing control for improved text formatting and rendering
Improved library panel for better usability
Tabbed panels for better workspace optimization
Stability and performance optimization in the authoring tool
Script Assist for simplified scripting
Document-level vs. Global Undo/Redo preference
Add file Upload/Download capabilities to Flash applications

Fireworks 8

Fireworks 8 lets you balance maximum image quality with minimum compression size as you create, edit and optimize images for the web with precise control.