What’s New
Adobe Flash CS4 Proessional soware oers a completely renewed ocus on ease o use.An object-based animation model makes working in Flash more approachable—and equally more productive. Adjust timing quickly without breaking tweens, modiy motion pathsusing Bezier curves, and tweak attributes like rotation, size, and color independently.Powerul new design tools such as 3D ranslation and 3D Rotation, Bones, and Deco openthe door to new creative possibilities. Unrivaled as an interactive design tool, Flash CS4 isthe one place to bring it all together—importing content rom other creative soware andworking smoothly with other Adobe products—to create inspirational experiences that go just about anywhere. Use Adobe Media Encoder to integrate high-denition H.264 video toreach wide audiences whether you’re publishing content to a web browser, a mobile device,or directly to the desktop with Adobe AIR™. More so than any previous release, Flash CS4enables creative proessionals to bring ideas to lie in new ways.
Adobe Flash CS4 Proessional is the industry-leading authoring environmentor creating engaging interactive experiences. Its riendly yet powerul newtools or animation and collaboration help you deliver rich dynamic contentto wide audiences across browsers, desktops, and devices.
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Top new features
•Object-basedanimation
model (Page 2)
•3Dtransformations(Page4)•Inversekinematicswith
the Bones tool (Page 5)
•Proceduralmodelingwiththe
Decotool(Page5)•MotionEditorpanel(Page6)•MotionPresetspanel(Page7)•AuthoringforAdobeAIR(Page7)•XFLsupport(Page7)•Metadatasupport(Page7)•AdobeMediaEncoder
withH.264(Page8)
With Adobe Flash CS4 Proessional, you can:
Desgn wth ease and ecency.
Designing in Flash has never been easier. A new object-based animation model applies tweens directly to symbols; Bezier curves allow you tosmoothly modiy automatically generated motion paths; and a new Motion Presets panelmakes it simple to save and then apply your avorite animations to any object. ExperiencedFlash users will also appreciate a new Motion Editor panel that oers granular levels o attribute and easing controls, which are used to create smooth, ne-tuned animations.
Exploe new ceatve possbltes.
New and exciting creative tools such as 3D ranslationand 3D Rotation, Bones, and Deco oer an interactive playground or you to explore your vision and creativity. Bring visual experiences into a new dimension by animating 2Dobjects through 3D space. Use the Bones tool to easily create chain-like eects or intuitivebehaviors between symbols and add interesting and organic expression to your designs withthe Deco tool.
Collaboate acoss woklows.
Adobe Flash CS4 Proessional makes it even easier ordesigners and developers to work hand in hand. Te XFL le ormat enables users to opencontent rom Adobe Aer Eects® CS4 soware and Adobe InDesign® CS4 soware directly in Flash CS4, and now you can import a code-only ActionScript™ 3.0 SWC componentdeveloped in Adobe Flex® Builder™ soware. In addition, XMP metadata support allowsusers to quickly nd and share SWF les, and a common user interace across the CreativeSuite 4 Web and Design products makes it easy to switch between applications.
Delve o a wde audence.
Te success o a project ultimately relies on how many people can view and interact with it. Adobe Flash CS4 Proessional is the one place to bringassets together and deliver brilliant interactive experiences that go where your audiencesare—web browsers, desktops, and mobile devices. XMP metadata support or mobilecontent enhances the mobile experience, and new publishing eatures allow you to instantly generate Adobe AIR applications that seamlessly bring your content directly to the desktop.
Top new eatues o Adobe Flash CS4 Poessonal
Adobe Flash CS4 Proessional contains hundreds o enhancements, including an easy-to-customize user interace consistent with other components within the Adobe Creative Suite4 amily o soware. Listed here are the most signicant new eatures ound in Adobe FlashCS4 Proessional.
Object-based animation model
In previous versions o Flash, creating an animation on the imeline involved a myriad o keystrokes and commands involving symbol creation, manual placement o keyrames, andmanual tween adjustments on the imeline itsel. Even upon the succesul creation o ananimation, users aced time-consuming and sometimes dicult editing tasks wheneverchanges had to be made.Te adoption o an object-based animation model means that motion tweens are applieddirectly to objects instead o to keyrames. Now, Flash CS4 Proessional is ar moreapproachable or new users, while simultaneously providing advanced designers anddevelopers ar greater control o individual animation attributes.
Ceatng a moton tween
With Flash CS4, tweening, or the interpolation o steps between keyrames, is now applieddirectly to objects, rather than to keyrames in the imeline. In act, the new object-basedanimation model enables users to create animations without using the imeline at all.
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Creating an animation in Flash CS4 is now an incredibly simple two-step process:1. Right-click on any object, and then choose Create Motion ween.2. Move the object.Tat’s it—you’re done. It’s really that easy.But don’t let the simplicity ool you. While a designer need only click the mouse a ew times,Flash CS4 works behind the scenes to reduce the number o steps necessary to oer asmoother user experience. For example, experienced Flash users know that they must rstconvert objects to symbols beore applying motion tweens to them. Now, i you try to apply a motion tween to an object that isn’t a symbol, Flash CS4 automatically converts the objectto a symbol without interrupting the tweening process. Streamlining object-to-symbolconversion allows new users to get started quickly with minimal rustration and expertusers to get more done aster.
Edtng a moton tween
I creating an animation proves just how user-riendly Flash CS4 can be, the process o editing an animation likewise proves how powerul this new version can be. For example,motion paths are now automatically generated and easily modied with Bezier handles.In addition, timing can be adjusted throughout an animation without having to manually set keyrames in the imeline, and—more importantly—without breaking tweens. Tisprovides signicant eciency with more intuitive interaction and control.Te new object-based animation model allows you to do things that were either extremely dicult or impossible to do with previous versions o Flash:
•Adjustthetimingofanyanimation.SimplydragthespanontheTimeline,andtheanima
-tion—including any and all keyrames—scales accordingly.
•Applyindividualanimationstomultiplesymbols—allwithinthesameframe.•Easilyeditamotionpath.Whenananimationiscreated,amotionpathisautomatically
generated, and can be edited as easily as any regular Bezier path.In summary, the new object-based animation model in Flash CS4 brings valuable benetsor all kinds o users—beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Ifyoudon’tcreateasymbol,
Flash CS4 Proessional will create
oneforyou—justoneexample
o how much easier it is to getstarted creating animatedcontent in Flash CS4.
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automatically created inFlash CS4 and can be editedas normal Bezier paths.
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