Adobe Production Premium, Win, ES 65055016 User Manual

Adobe Flash authoring tools in Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium

With Creative Suite 5, Adobe delivers a variety of tools with the capability to author interactive content for the Adobe Flash Platform.  
Each project you work on is unique, presenting various requirements and specifications regarding design, development, and 
deployment. This comparison chart is a quick reference that will help you choose the best tool or tools for what you want to accomplish.

Flash Professional

Flash Catalyst

Rich content, interactive video content,  
advertising, games

User interfaces, rich Internet applications, microsites, 
prototypes, widgets

An authoring tool that enables you to create 

immersive experiences that can include video content

An interaction design tool that enables you to transform 

artwork into functional interfaces and interactive content

Free-form design

Structured interaction design

Timeline and frames

Pages and states

Advanced vector animation

Transitions, basic movement

Encoding & advanced playback controls

Basic video playback controls

ActionScript coding or components

Flash Catalyst components or export to Flash Builder  
to add more functionality

Some ActionScript coding

None

Flash Player, AIR, Flash Lite, iPhone*

Flash Player 10, AIR

*Packager for iPhone® preview, included with Flash Professional CS5, compiles ActionScript bytecode into native iPhone application code.  

iPhone applications are distributed as iPhone application installer (IPA) files, via the iTunes store.