Quickly create animations, easily modify motion paths, and enjoy complete control over individual animation attributes with object-based animation. Create chain-like animation effects with a series of linked objects or quickly distort a single shape using the new Bones tool.

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.

Enjoy a fast, fluid workflow with Adobe® Flash® Professional software, featuring a streamlined user interface, advanced video tools, and impressive integration with related software. Realize your creative vision with a full complement of drawing, animation, and interactive design tools. Explore innovative styles and techniques, impress your clients with more than they expected, and deliver consistent results across multiple platforms. With Flash Professional, the possibilities extend as far as your imagination.

Product Features:
• Create rich, interactive content for the web and mobile devices
• Design interactive instructional media such as how-to demonstrations and training materials
• Produce interactive video, animations, and motion graphics for broadcast, web, and mobile.
• Enjoy seamless integration with other Adobe creative tools
• Ideal for web and interactive content designers, instructional media designers, graphic designers, students, or video and motion graphics professionals

• 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.

• 3D transformation
Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformation to any object.

• 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.

• Metadata (XMP) support
Add metadata to SWF files using the new XMP panel. Quickly assign tags for enhanced collaboration and better mobile experiences.

• Authoring for Adobe AIR
Deliver interactive experiences to the desktop with new integrated capability to publish to the Adobe® AIR™ runtime. Reach even more audiences across more devices — web, mobile, and now the desktop.

• XFL support
Open content from Adobe InDesign® or After Effects® software and retain file integrity. With the cross-application XFL format, easily import content for further development in Adobe Flash®.

• 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.

• Motion editor
Experience detailed control over keyframe parameters, including rotation, size, scale, position, filters, and more, using the new motion editor. Refine easing control with graphical displays similar to those in After Effects.

• Motion presets
Jump-start your project with prebuilt animations that can be applied to any object. Select from dozens of presets or create and save your own. Share presets with others to save animation time.

• H.264 support
Encode to any format recognized by the Adobe Flash Player runtime with Adobe Media Encoder, the same tool found in other Adobe video products and now with support for H.264.