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Studio 8 is the essential software suite used to Design, Develop and Maintain interactive online experiences.

With the 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 consists of 5 Top Macromedia products (latest releases):

1. Dreamweaver 8  NEW
   The new Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is the industry-leading Web Development Tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.
   Enhanced CSS support, including a unified CSS panel and rendering improvements; visual authoring with XML data; workflow improvements like Code Collapse and file rollback; seamless integration with Flash Video, PHP 5, and ColdFusion MX 7; and much more.
   
   
2. Flash Professional 8  NEW
   Dazzling new motion graphics and animation effects, new Flash Video capability, a new text rendering engine, performance optimizations, special tools for creating mobile content, and much more.
   
   
3. Fireworks 8  NEW
   Strike the balance between image quality and size with optimization tools. Create, edit, and optimize vector and bitmap images for the web with new blend effects. Try new streamlined workflows and round-trip integration with Dreamweaver 8 and Flash Professional 8.
   
   
4. Contribute 3
   Keep your website content fresh and your resources focused using Web Content Management Tools and Workflows. Subject matter experts can update web content in a controlled, template-based workflow, freeing designers and developers to focus on site design and development.
   
   
5. FlashPaper 2
   Now anyone can convert printable files into Macromedia Flash documents or PDF files with one click.
   

1. 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.
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
7. 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.
   
   
8. Upgrade Easily regardless of version
   Now has never been a better time to upgrade your copies of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, or Studio products. Macromedia is improving its upgrade policy to enable users any prior versions to upgrade without any additional fees. Customers of any past version of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, or Studio are eligible to upgrade to Studio 8 for a single, simplified price regardless of version number.
   
   
9. 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.
   
   
10. 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.