Macromedia Studio 8 Now Available
September 13, 2005
San Francisco, CA - Macromedia announced the immediate availability of Macromedia Studio 8 ($399-$999), the suite for web designers, developers, video professionals and graphic artists to design, develop and maintain interactive online experiences. Combining the latest releases of Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash Professional, and Macromedia Fireworks and key productivity tools Macromedia Contribute and Macromedia FlashPaper, the company says that Studio 8 offers a new level of expressiveness, efficiency, and simplified workflow to create websites, interactive media, and mobile content.
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"Studio 8 exemplifies our continued focus on delivering the best solutions for communicating rich information to global audiences across multiple mediums," said Stephen Elop, chief executive officer, Macromedia. "With tremendous improvements to features and performance, we believe Studio 8 will fundamentally change the way people create and deliver digital content all over the world."
Studio 8 includes new video encoding tools, developed to give users an easier method for creating and publishing high-quality interactive video for truly memorable online experiences. New CSS enhancements and visual authoring tools for XML were designed to add style and sophistication to websites and applications.
New tools for authoring and testing mobile content and the addition of Contribute and FlashPaper allows designers and developers a streamlined approach to maintaining web content, designed to make the upkeep of sites created with the suite even more cost effective.
The Studio 8 suite and its individual products are key application components of the Macromedia Flash Platform for delivering rich content, applications and communications across browsers, operating systems and devices.
Dreamweaver 8, available immediately, is Macromedia's latest release of for designing and developing websites and applications. New Dreamweaver 8 features include expanded Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) layout visualization for easier design, drag-and-drop integration of XML data feeds, improved code hinting support for XML and XSLT, enhanced usability features such as zoom and code collapse to streamline the development process, and easier ways to incorporate Flash video content onto websites.
Flash Player 8, available immediately, includes a higher quality video codec, an advanced text-rendering engine and an improved security model and privacy controls to offer unprecedented performance in a lightweight runtime player, according to the company.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Macromedia Studio 8, Dreamweaver 8, Flash Professional 8, and Fireworks 8 are available for immediate purchase from the Macromedia Online Store. Studio 8 pricing is $999 for a full license (NA commercial) and $399 for an upgrade (NA commercial). Education, government, and volume pricing is available.
For more information about Studio 8 visit:
www.macromedia.com/software/studio
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