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With latest releases of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute and FlashPaper, Macromedia 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 has many new and improved features that make it a significant release: new Contribute web content management capabilities, easier-than-ever high-quality video tools, new graphic effects like blends and blurs, performance optimizations, improved user interfaces, and integration support for today's latest technologies. Take content to a new level, exploring advanced graphics, text tools, text rendering, animation, and video tools in Flash Professional 8. Give projects new levels of sophistication and quality. Explore 25 new effects in Fireworks 8 for fast image creation and editing. Quickly drag-and-drop video in Dreamweaver to make sites visually dynamic. From simple animated graphics to sophisticated interactive experiences, Studio 8 unleashes creativity. Macromedia Studio 8 speeds the design, development, and maintenance process with integrated round-tripping between Macromedia products, new time-saving features like batch rendering for media assets and batch encoding for video, faster user interface workflows, and boosted integration with third-party products. Deliver projects that support the widest range of operating systems, browsers, and server technologies. Develop applications using HTML, XHTML, XML, ColdFusion, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP with drag-and-drop visual tools and components, code libraries, and extensive code-editing support. Studio 8 makes the best practices of web design and development available to everyone, from users working on their first website to those developing advanced web applications. Design and develop with confidence that Studio projects will integrate with and support the latest technologies, platforms, operating systems, and industry standards.