Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

Description: Adobe Flash (formerly known as Macromedia Flash), or simply Flash - a multimedia platform that is used primarily for creating vector animations and interactive applications (including games) as well as to integrate video into web pages.

Adobe Flash allows you to work with vector, raster, and, to a three-dimensional graphics and supports bi-directional transmission of streaming audio and video. For PDAs and other mobile devices, released a special "lite" version of the Flash Lite, whose functionality is limited, based on the capabilities of mobile operating systems and hardware performance.

The main development tools used proprietary packages Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Flash Builder 4 (formerly known as Adobe Flex Builder), allowing you to create interactive applications (including web applications, games and cartoons).

Standard extension for Flash-compiled files (animations, games and interactive applications) is. SWF ((Shockwave Flash) or Small Web Format); videos in Flash format are files with the extension FLV (Flash for this, in this case is only used as a container for video). FLA extension matches the format of the working files in the IDE.

Flash-content is reproduced through a variety of software tools, but market dominance is the official proprietary Adobe Flash Player, distributed as a free plug-in for most modern browsers. Also SWF-files can be viewed with different free players, for example, Gnash or swfdec. FLV-files are played through the Adobe Flash Player, or through media players such as Quicktime and Windows Media Player, with the appropriate plug-ins

System requirements:

• 1GHz or faster processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista)
• 1GB of RAM
• 3.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features