Macromedia/Adobe Studio 8 Why Macromedia Studio 8 Studio 8 is the must-have suite for start-to-finish design, development and maintenance of websites, applications, games, interactive presentations, and mobile content. Express creativity. Studio 8 offers the broadest range of creative tools for expressiveness and creation of vibrant 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 provides a full suite of tools for limitless creativity. Get more done. Studio 8 speeds the design, development, and maintenance process, with reliable round-tripping between Macromedia products, integration with third-party products, and key features like batch processing, batch encoding, and general performance enhancements to get projects done faster.

Products in Studio 8

Dreamweaver 8

is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications. With Dreamweaver 8, web developers go from start to finish, creating and maintaining basic websites to advanced applications that support best practices and the latest technologies.

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. Flash Professional 8 has many brand new features including: amazing filter effects, integrated and stand-alone video encoding complete with support for alpha transparency, high-quality text rendering with advanced anti-aliasing control, improved text tools, and a new video plug-in to export Flash Video (FLV) files from professional video products.

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. Fireworks 8 has many new and improved features that make it a significant release. New features include effects like blends and shadows, more file formats supported for importing, pop-up menus in CSS format, and new image editing, autoshape properties and special characters panels for a better user experience.

Contribute 3

frees designers and developers from web maintenance, allowing others to easily update content in a controlled environment that preserves the integrity of the website. Contribute 3 offers flexibility and control for web content with features such as simple WYSIWYG browse -edit-and-publish capabilities, administrative controls for secured reviews before publishing, integration with Microsoft Office and Macromedia products, sharing of assets for efficiency and standardization, cross-platform and multi-browser support, and client- and server-side extensibility to support LDAP/ Active Directory connectivity and other custom systems integration.

FlashPaper 2

anyone can instantly create PDF and Flash documents using drag-and-drop file conversion for instant document publishing, one-click conversion through toolbars in Microsoft Office and Macromedia products, 128-byte encryption and dual-password protection capabilities, and preservation of hyperlinks, URLs, embedded URLs and linked images for fluid document navigation.

Macromedia Studio 8 System Requirements for Windows

• 800 MHz Intel Pentium III processor (or equivalent) and later
• Windows 2000, Windows XP
• 256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
• 1024 x 768, 16-bit display (32-bit recommended)
• 710 MB available disk space

Studio 8 System Requirements for Mac

• 600 MHz PowerPC G3 and later
• Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4
• 256 MB RAM (1 GB recommended to run more than one Studio 8 product simultaneously)
• 1024 x 768, thousands of colors display (millions of colors recommended)
• 360 MB available disk space