This upgrade version of Adobe Flash CS4 Professional will install
only if you are a licensed user of Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Macromedia
Flash Professional 8, or Macromedia Flash MX 2004.

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional software is the
industry-leading authoring environment for creating engaging interactive
experiences. Deliver to audiences across platforms and devices. Adobe Flash CS4
Professional software offers exciting new animation and collaboration tools,
such as object-based animation, inverse kinematics, 3D translation and rotation
tools, XFL support, and the ability to publish to the Adobe AIR runtime.

Create and deliver rich interactive content:

• Animating in Flash just got easier
  Quickly create
  animations, easily modify motion paths, and enjoy complete control over
  individual animation attributes with object-based animation.
  

• Flash now does inverse kinematics
  Create chain-like
  animation effects with a series of linked objects or quickly distort a
  single shape using the new Bones tool.
  

• Flash Player reaches 99% of Internet viewers
  
  Installed on more than 850 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile
  devices, Flash Player enables you to widely deliver powerful experiences
  created with Flash.
  

KEY FEATURES:

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  Object-based animation
  Gain complete control over
  individual animation attributes with object-based animation, which applies
  tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes to
  motion with Bezier handles.

  
  


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  3D transformation
  Bringing perspective and dimension
  to your design can add an element of excitement and fun to any project. But
  until now, the ability to create 3D motion was available only to expert
  users via ActionScript or other sophisticated tools. Now, with Flash CS4,
  you can animate 2D objects through 3D space with new easy-to-use 3D
  transformation tools, greatly extending creative possibilities.

  
  


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  Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool
  Create
  chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects, or quickly
  distort a single shape using the new Bones tool. Much like the bones in the
  human body form a skeleton that moves and behaves in a definitive way, the
  new Bones tool in Flash CS4 allows you to link a series of symbols together
  with "bones" that can be quickly and easily animated and then controlled
  relative to one another.

  
  


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  Procedural modeling with Deco and Spray Brush
  Turn
  symbols into instant design tools. Apply symbols in a variety of ways:
  Quickly create kaleidoscope-like effects and apply fills using the Deco
  tool, or randomly spray symbols across any defined area using the Spray
  Brush. If you think Flash CS4 is all about technical stuff that does nothing
  for the design side of the brain, think again. The Deco tool is a fantastic
  new addition that literally blossoms forth with symmetry and creativity as
  you turn any symbol into an instant design element.

  
  


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  Sophisticated video tools
  Leverage the Adobe Media
  Encoder and experience advanced video capabilities including embedded cue
  points, alpha channel support, and high-quality video codecs.

  
  


• Authoring for Adobe AIR
  Deliver interactive
  experiences to the desktop with new integrated capability to publish to the
  Adobe AIR runtime. Adobe AIR,
  the technology that makes Flash experiences on the desktop possible, is now
  built into Flash CS4 Professional. By extending Flash beyond the browser
  with custom desktop experiences and branding opportunities,
  Adobe AIR introduces exciting
  new methods for delivering interactive content.

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

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  XFL support
  Open content from Adobe InDesign or After
  Effects software and retain file integrity. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
  introduces support for XFL, a file format that allows for improved
  integration across the Creative Suite 4 family. Users can now easily export
  content from Adobe InDesign and Adobe After Effects to Flash. With
  XFL support, InDesign and
  After Effects users have new opportunities to begin using Flash.

  
  


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  Delivery to the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player
  
  Continue to reach wide audiences around the world by delivering to the most
  popular media player on the Internet today.

  
  


• Motion Editor panel
  With the new object-based
  animation model in Flash CS4 Professional, keyframes take on a new and
  significant role. You can now experience granular, independent control over
  every keyframe parameter, including rotation, size, scale, position,
  filters, and more, using the Motion Editor panel. Offering even more command
  over the creative presentation of your animations, the Motion Editor panel
  allows you to graphically control easing using curves.

• Motion Presets panel
  Being efficient is a large part
  of being a successful designer or developer. To this end, Flash CS4
  Professional provides a library of prebuilt animations to jump-start your
  project. A huge time-saver, motion presets are easy for anyone to create and
  use.

• Adobe Media Encoder with H.264 support
  Video content
  is fast becoming a first-class citizen on the web. As companies make the
  decision to add more video content to their online presence, designers and
  developers struggle to find that happy medium--video content that is high in
  quality but small in file size. With more and more people using their mobile
  devices to view video content, developers must be acutely aware of bandwidth
  issues--without budging an inch on quality. So it's no surprise that Adobe
  Flash Player 10 supports what has become the standard in
  high-quality/low-bandwidth video content--H.264.