What's new

There are now two editions of Flash: Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004. To verify which edition you have installed, select Help > About Flash in the application.

Flash MX 2004 Flash MX 2004 is the perfect tool for the web designer, interactive media professional, or subject matter expert developing multimedia content. Emphasis is on creation, import, and manipulation of many types of media (audio, video, bitmaps, vectors, text, and data).

Flash MX Professional 2004 Flash MX Professional 2004 is designed for advanced web designers and application builders. Flash MX Professional 2004 includes all the features of Flash MX 2004, along with several powerful new tools. It provides project-management tools for optimizing the workflow between the members of a web team made up of designers and developers. External scripting and capabilities for handling dynamic data from databases are some of the features that make Flash particularly suitable for large-scale, complex projects deployed using the Flash Player along with a hybrid of HTML content.