Adobe Flash CS5 Professional

by Adobe

Adobe Flash CS5 Professional is Adobe's discontinued authoring tool for creating Flash animations, interactive web content and AIR applications.

Operating system: Windows

Publisher: Adobe

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NOTE: Adobe Flash CS5 Professional has been discontinued and is now replaced by Adobe Animate.

Adobe Flash CS5 Professional is one of the best-known programs designed for professional development of interactive flash movies or interactive content of web pages, as well as for creating video flash movies.

Adobe Flash CS5 Professional has a wide range of features that allow you to create interactive projects for different platforms - Flash Player in the browser, Adobe AIR desktop applications and, with the Packager for iPhone, iOS apps.

Adobe Flash CS5 Professional allows for swift and convenient creation of interactive flash movies and web content with diverse, easy-to-use features.

It is worth noting that in this program an animation can be created with just a few mouse clicks. Thanks to the object-oriented approach to the creation of animation, which is implemented in Adobe Flash CS5 Professional, you can quickly turn a drawn object into a motion tween.

The tools intended for editing the movement of objects make work with projects faster and easier: for example, the motion path is created automatically when you move an object on the stage. And thanks to the Motion Editor, you can set the properties of the animation of any object. New in CS5 are the Text Layout Framework, the Code Snippets panel and the XML-based XFL file format.

Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
2 GB of RAM
3.5 GB of free disk space
1024x768 display, Java Runtime Environment 1.6

PROS
Incorporates 3D transformation features for enhanced animation.
Includes an ActionScript editor with ready code snippets.
Saves projects in the open XML-based XFL format.

CONS
Limited support and phasing out in favor of newer technologies.
Requires significant system resources to run smoothly.
Steep learning curve for beginners, especially non-designers.
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