Adobe Flash

By Erick, Chalise, & Harneet

Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems.

Used to be known as Macromedia Flash Also, Flash enhances websites to give it

more of an appealing look

What is Adobe Flash?

Accessible in desktop operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS 9/X & Linux ◦ This allows websites to play videos and games

Flash is provided on mobile devices such as Android & BlackBerry

Many movies use Flash in order to create special effects like in the movie Transformers, or Harry Potter

Used in advertisements to effectively market a product

Uses of Flash

Android phone playing YouTube videos

Click for full story of Adobe Flash in Android http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10947784

Industry Samples

Flash used to make movies and this is a small clip where someone created this with flash to say Happy Holidays

Here is a frame where Santa is surfing

Click for full animation http://www.flashkit.com/movies/launcher.php?url=http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Animations/Santa_su-Julien_T-12282/Santa_su-Julien_T-12282.swf&width=1058&height=794&bg=#FFFFFF

Flash Video allows videos to be viewed over the internet using Adobe Flash Player◦ Sites such as YouTube, Hulu, VEVO, and Yahoo

Video use flash as their default video player Adobe Flash Player is used on all computers

and smart phones excluding IPhones The ShockWave Flash (.SWF) support file

format was first introduced in Flash Player 6 which was released in 2002◦ Other formats now are .FLV, .F4V, and .MPEG

Flash Video

Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3.2 helps air live events as well as recorded events

Mainly used by MP3 industries because devices that hold digital audio files on internal flash memory or removable flash media called memory cards◦ Due to technological advances in flash memory,

devices now range up to having 64GB of memory Most compatible with uncompressed audio

formats such as .WAV and .AIFF files, and automatically compresses the audio to MP3 when you publish your movie or song

Flash Audio

In conclusion, Adobe Flash has advanced in performance and is recognized by all its users

Is the most used software for audio and video

Lastly, it is free to download and is easily available

Adobe Flash

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