Flash Professional 8 is the industry s most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. With Flash Professional 8, creative professionals design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.

Features:
* Filters Create more compelling designs with built in filter effects like drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, gradient bevel, and color adjust. Filters are visual effects applied to MovieClips and text fields and are natively supported and rendered in real time by Flash Player.
* Blend modes Going well beyond what other design tools offer, Flash Professional 8 offers run time control over blend modes, allowing graphical effects to be composited for fully dynamic user interactivity.
* Custom easing control Easily, intuitively, and precisely control the velocity of animated objects through an intuitive graph that provides independent control of position, rotation, scale, color, and filters.
* Alpha channel support Support for a real alpha channel at run time. This revolutionary new capability provides the unique ability to overlay video composited with a transparent (even semi transparent) alpha channel over other Flash content. Create dynamic presentations such as splashing water, smoke and fire effects, as well as presenters shot in front of a blue screen.
* Advanced video encoding options The advanced video encoder, available within the Flash authoring tool, as a plug in to professional video editing tools, as well as a stand alone tool, provides advanced encoding options that will allow developers to optimize quality and file size of video content.
* Stand alone video encoder Advanced encoding options for creating Flash Video files using either the new, high quality On2 VP6 codec or the Sorenson Spark codec. This encoder also includes a batch processing capability to encode multiple video files at once.
* Improved, easily skinnable video component Easily customize and change the look and feel without adding a great deal of file size to video projects. This new component also works with multiple deployment options including streaming and progressive download.
* Improved actions panel By combining the new script assist feature with the new target language drop down in the actions panel, it is now far simpler to use different versions of the ActionScript language. For understanding the syntax used by Flash Lite 1.1 better, the new Script Assist feature will do most of the work for you. These improvements add up to a far better development experience for mobile content developers new to Flash Lite.