Buy Macromedia Studio 8 Upgrade

Description

THIS PRODUCT IS AN UPGRADE FROM A PREVIOUS STUDIO VERSION OR COMPONENT PRODUCTS

This is a Commercial Upgrade (Not Student Edition) of Macromedia Studio Version 8.

Studio 8 is the essential software suite used to design, develop and maintain interactive online experiences.

With latest releases of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper, Studio 8 offers web designers and developers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive experiences and mobile content.

Studio 8 has many new and improved features that make it a significant release: new Contribute web content management capabilities, easier-than-ever high-quality video tools, new graphic effects like blends and blurs, performance optimizations, improved user interfaces, and integration support for today’s latest technologies.

Top ten reasons to upgrade to Macromedia Studio 8:

Get the latest of the best
Get the latest versions of every tool you need, including Dreamweaver 8, Flash Professional 8, Fireworks 8, Contribute 3, and FlashPaper 2. Studio 8 is a significant release, delivering many cool new creative and development features, extended workflows including web content management, and better performance for those who design, develop, and maintain interactive projects.

Take advantage of cool creative tools
Studio 8 includes many new and some industry "first" features that will catapult your designs to a new level of quality, sophistication, and style. Grab audience attention with interactive online video sites using Flash Professional 8 and Dreamweaver 8. Experiment with the new text tool, text rendering engine, beautiful blend modes, and filter effects in Flash Professional. Explore the 25 new filter effects in Fireworks 8 to create great end user experiences.

Turbo-charge workflow
Studio 8 offers new efficiencies within its products and in workflows with third-party applications. Use the code collapse and code view features in Dreamweaver 8 to focus on the code at hand while taking advantage of the new zoom tool for greater precision during design. Enjoy the new background file transfer capabilities to keep working during file interchange. The new tab panels in Flash Professional 8 allow personalization of workspace for optimized workflow, and new panels in Fireworks 8 better aggregate key image editing features. All Studio 8 products support expanded integration with Macromedia and third-party products for maximum productivity.

Bring video to the web
Start incorporating video into online experiences. Flash Professional 8 makes web video easy and fun, with a new intuitive workflow for building interactive video content. New features include a high-quality video codec with alpha channel support; a stand-alone video encoder with batch processing; embedded cue points in FLV files to trigger interactivity with video; and the ability to export Flash Video (FLV) from professional nonlinear editing software using the Flash Video exporter plug-in. Use Dreamweaver 8 to effortlessly drag-and-drop Flash Video onto websites.

Easy standards support
Design and develop with confidence for results that support industry standards and best practices. The new CSS layout visualization and unified CSS panel in Dreamweaver 8 make it effortless to create, master, and maintain CSS-base designs. Revolutionary visual development tools for XML enable integration of XML data by simply pointing to an XML file and dragging and dropping the content onto the page. Dreamweaver 8 includes the industry’s first integrated evaluation tool for Section 508 and WCAG Priority 2 checkpoints.

Keep current with technology
Keep current with today’s latest technologies. Dreamweaver 8 provides a robust development environment for new technologies like Flash Video, PHP 5, and ColdFusion MX 7. Content created with Flash Professional 8 will leverage the new Flash Player 8 client runtime, enabling creative control and expression that has never been possible on the web.

Little things do matter
Since its last release, Macromedia Studio product teams have conducted hundreds of intensive customer interviews and countless usability studies with designers and developers. The resulting releases of Dreamweaver 8, Flash 8, and Fireworks 8 include big new features as requested but also address many small changes to take the hassle out of daily tasks and improve the workflow for seasoned Macromedia developers. Small but important changes such as the background file transfer in Dreamweaver, the consolidated image editing panel in Fireworks, and the improved library panel in Flash have received rave reviews from beta testers.

Go mobile
Use Studio 8 to take the web experience farther and create content for millions of mobile handheld devices and phones. Author, test, and preview mobile content using the advanced authoring environment in Flash Professional 8 complete with an interactive emulator for Flash Lite.

Suite deal
The new Studio 8 includes five award-winning Macromedia products to design, develop, and maintain interactive projects. New to Studio 8 is the inclusion of Contribute and FlashPaper – two tools to expand workflows and provide a simple, effective, and affordable method of collaboration with other team members. Web professionals can focus more on design or development when non-technical content contributors can submit web-ready materials directly in a controlled, organized workflow.