Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform created by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Now, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.
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Object-based animation
3D transformation
Inverse kinematics with the Bones tool
Procedural modeling with Deco and Spray Brush
Motion editor
Metadata (XMP) support
Motion presets
Authoring for Adobe AIR
H.264 support
XFL support