Animate images, shapes, texts and SWF clips
Use more than 130 predefined animation effects like Fade, Zoom, Rotate
Export SWF files and generate necessary HTML code
Add WAV and MP3 sounds
Use ActionScript to create interactive movies
Once the animation is completed, user can export SWF file and generate HTML code necessary to integrate Flash movie with the Web page. Novice developers can export sample HTML page with embedded SWF file. Flash animation can play in opaque or in transparent mode, what allows placing the movie over other Web page elements.
Designers can put repetitive elements on master frames and use them as the background for other frames, or use clones of large items to reduce output file size. Shapes - rectangles, circles and polygons can have solid, gradient or bitmap fill, custom border color and width. User can change stacking order of the elements, put them on different layers, group or ungroup items, set item opacity to create semi-transparency effect, move and align items using rulers, mouse, keyboard or menu commands.
Flash Designer can import graphics in the most popular formats - gif, jpeg, bmp and animated gif. The application allows simple image processing, resizing, rotation, cropping and erasing. Users can also import and animate thousands of SWF clipart files available in online Flash libraries.
Each object can be animated independently by applying intro and outro transformation effect - moving, stretching, rotating in various combinations. To simplify the process users can choose one of the predefined effects, or define "tween" animation between the frames.
Flash Designer supports sound in WAV or MP3 format. The user can assign a sound to a frame or to an item, and define the sound to be played when a mouse event occurs (on click, on over, and on up).
The application supports both vector and system fonts. Users can enter the text and format it using basic HTML tags like B, I or LI, or use text animation effects by animating each letter independently.
Advanced designers can program behavior of the elements in ActionScript. All items can respond to mouse events (on click, on over, and on up). Developers can use editable text fields and read or assign values to them, or pass parameters to the movie using query string in HTML code. Flash Designer supports basic functions like gotoAndPlay and all built-in ActionScript functions and classes (compatible with Flash MX).
The program comes with extensive help files, 2 tutorials and 25 example animations that demonstrate basic features of the application.
The product costs $39.00(US) (downloadable) or $49.00(US) (boxed).
Good Software! posted by: Carlos Perea on:Feb 21, 05 6:55 pm
I like it a lot, it really simplifies a lot of things, and it's very easy to use, but don't be fooled by this, the software it's very powerful.
You got to try it, if you want a cheap alternative to Flash.
