Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5

Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5.5 software is the industry-leading authoring environment for producing expressive interactive content. Create immersive experiences that present consistently to audiences across desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions.

Create once, deploy virtually anywhere

Efficiently manage multiple FLA files that target various devices and platforms. Use Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 software to create content for desktops, smartphones, tablets, and televisions.

Expanded platform and device support

Reach audiences on the latest Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes and on Android™ and iOS devices.

Efficient workflows for mobile development

Manage FLA project files that target multiple devices. Share code and assets across documents and device targets to efficiently create, test, package, and deploy content for a wide range of screens and devices.

Content scaling when resizing stage

Save time when sharing symbols and motion paths across documents that are optimized for different screen sizes.

Enhanced layer control

Preserve important document structure when copying layers across multiple files and projects.

Streamlined Publish Settings dialog box

Publish content quickly and more efficiently with a redesigned Publish Settings dialog box.

Mobile content development

Use Adobe Device Central to plan, preview, and test content for a wide array of mobile and consumer devices.

Cross-platform support

Work on your operating system of choice: Mac OS or Windows®.

Symbol rasterization and better performance

Use new tooling options, on-stage symbol rasterization, and the Property Inspector to improve CPU, battery, and rendering performance on mobile devices.

Integration with CS Live online services

Work more efficiently through integration with Adobe CS Live online services 1, 2, including Acrobat.com, Adobe CS Review, and SiteCatalyst® NetAverages™.

Incremental compilation

Use asset caching to reduce the compile time of documents that use embedded fonts and sound files, and deploy rich content faster.

Auto-save and file recovery

Ensure consistency and integrity of your files, even after computer crashes or power outages.

Design with expression

Clearly communicate your creative vision and exceed expectations with typographic precision, layout fidelity, and expressive motion-editing capabilities in Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5.5 software.

Advanced drawing tools

Design artwork precisely and efficiently with smart shapes and powerful design tools.

Industry-leading animation tools

Create and edit motion tweens using the Timeline and Motion Editor, and use inverse kinematics to create natural motion for character animation.

Professional video tools

Easily incorporate video into your projects, and convert video clips efficiently with the included Adobe Media Encoder application.

Filter and Blend effects

Add interesting visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips to create expressive content.

Object-based animation

Gain control over individual animation attributes, and apply tweens directly to objects instead of to keyframes. Easily make changes to motion with Bezier handles.

3D transformation

Animate 2D objects through 3D space with exciting new 3D translation and rotation tools, which allow you to animate along the x, y, and z axes. Apply local or global transformations to any object.

Spring for the Bone tool

Add expressive, lifelike animation properties — like spring and bounce — with motion attributes for the Bone tool. An improved inverse kinematics engine provides more realistic and complex physics movements within a simple, familiar interface.

Deco drawing brushes

Add advanced animation effects with a comprehensive set of brushes for the Deco tool. Quickly create movement for particle phenomena like clouds or rain, and draw stylized lines or patterns with multiple objects.

Easy video integration

Streamline video embedding and encoding processes with on-stage video scrubbing and the cue points property inspector. See and play back FLV components directly on the stage.

Advanced text engine

Get global bidirectional language support and advanced print-quality typography APIs via the Text Layout Framework. Format text in columns and maintain layout with greater fidelity when importing content from other Adobe products.

Inverse kinematics pinning support

Lock inverse kinematics bones to the stage and set stage level movement restrictions to selected bones. Create multiple spans per layer, and define more complex movement of armatures, such as walk cycles.

Unified Creative Suite interface

Boost your efficiency with intuitive panel docking and spring-loaded behaviors that streamline your interaction with tools throughout the Adobe Creative Suite® editions.

Creative Suite integration

Perform roundtrip edits of bitmap images with Adobe Photoshop® CS5, import FLA files directly from Adobe InDesign® CS5.5, and integrate closely with Adobe Flash Builder 4.5.

Customer-inspired enhancements

Benefit from numerous user-requested improvements, including improved controls for the Text Layout Framework.

Affordable subscription option

Get ongoing access to Flash Professional CS5.5 software for an affordable monthly fee. Choose a one-year plan for lower payments or a flexible month-to-month plan you can stop and restart as needed.

Write code quickly and easily

Quickly and efficiently write code with powerful authoring tools and integration with Adobe Flash Builder™ 4.5 software. Visually inject extensible code snippets optimized for mobile.

ActionScript editor

Speed up development with the built-in ActionScript editor that features custom class code hinting and code completion. Quickly grasp the fundamentals of ActionScript, and efficiently reference your own or external code libraries.

Seamless mobile testing

Perform source-level debugging on Adobe AIR enabled devices that are connected with a USB cable, running content directly on the device.

XML-based FLA source files

Collaborate on projects more easily with a new XML-based implementation of the FLA file format. Uncompressed projects appear and act like folders, allowing you to quickly manage and modify assets such as images.

Code Snippets panel

Speed up project completion by using convenient prewritten code snippets for common actions, animation, multitouch gestures, and more. Also discover an easier way to learn the ActionScript® 3.0 language.

Enhanced code snippets handling

Use the new pick whip to preview and visually add more than 20 new code snippets, including ones for creating mobile and AIR applications, use of the accelerometer, and multitouch gestures.

Flash Builder integration

Work more closely with developers who can use your Flash project files with Flash Builder to test, debug, and publish your content more efficiently.