SWiSH miniMax 4 Academic (Electronic Software Delivery)

SWiSH miniMax4 - Make Flash Quick and Easy

• Ideal Flash Creator For The Business User Or Student
• Creates Stunning Flash Animations, Banners and more
• Includes over 100 Preset Multimedia Effects
• Includes over 300 Ready-to-use Components and Vector Shapes
• Import Images, Graphics and Sound from all popular formats
• Export Presentations to Flash, GIF Animation or Image Sequence
• Easy Script Assistant For Adding Simple Interactivity To Animations
• Tools to Control Motion, Draw Shapes, Edit Text, and more
• Project templates - Instant Results Using the Wizard Panel
• NEW! Effect Browser Preview - Review before you apply
• NEW! Improved User options - New SWF export options, Script compiler and more

With SWiSH miniMax4 you can create Flash movies quickly and easily. SWiSH miniMax4 is packed with features that lets you make stunning interactive Flash animations. Here are some of the features that make SWiSH miniMax4 so powerful:

Multimedia Effects & Components

• Ideal Flash creation solution for the business user or student. Quick professional results.
• Project Templates and Wizard Panel for quick publish of included projects.
• Bundled with over 100 built-in multimedia effects and a simple effects browser.
• Built-in effects make creating animations quick and easy using your text, images, graphics or sounds.
• Effects can be applied to multiple objects.
• Supports multiple overlapping soundtracks with multiple sound effects.
• Choose from over 300 components and vector shapes.

Over 100 Built-In Multimedia Effects

SWiSH miniMax4 comes bundled with over 100 built-in multimedia effects that let you make fantastic animations with your text, images, graphics or sound. The Effects Browser lets you step through each effect to preview your animation - with so many effects the only problem is deciding which one to use!

Drag & Drop Components

Need a button, list, menu or preloader? Simply drag it onto the stage. Choose from over 300 SWiSH miniMax4 components and vector shapes, or make your own to simplify common tasks.

Drawing Tools

• Type text directly on the stage and even give each character an individual attribute (bold, font, size etc.).
• Drawing tools include: Line, Pencil, Pen, Text, Ellipse/Circle, Rectangle/Square and AutoShapes.
• Keyboard short cuts are available for all the drawing tools.
• Use AutoShapes to place arrows, stars, polygons and more.
• Guides, grids, and alignment tools.
• Guides, grids, and alignment tools.
• Improved Drawing - Editable Bezier curves on the Motion path, Smoothing options for the Pencil Tool.

Drawing & Editing Tools

SWiSH miniMax4 comes complete with a set of professional quality drawing tools including: Line, Pencil, Pen, Text, Elipse/Circle, Rectangle/Square and AutoShapes.

Guides, Grids and Alignment Tools Guide, grids and alignment tools make positioning your movies elements a breeze. You can simply snap to grids or guides to constrain the objects you are editing. Objects can also be aligned or spaced out evenly.

User Interface

• A simple yet comprehensive interface puts all the tools within easy reach.
• Objects, frames and effects can all be added, modified or deleted directly from the Timeline or Outline tree.
• Moveable panels can be hidden to clear your workspace.
• Preview all your work within SWiSH miniMax4, even playback at different internet speeds.
• NEW! Paste and Delete - now optionally include effects and script.

Simple Yet Powerful

A simple, inuitive interface puts all the tools within easy reach yet you can clear away all the panels with simple clicks for maximum workspace.

Object Tree and Timeline View

View objects in the Outline tree or on the Timeline. Every objects is it's own layer - you can group objects as shapes to add complex effects or group as separate movie clips for independent animation timelines.

Import & Export

• Import SWF movies produced by any other Flash application.
• Import sounds, graphics and text files.
• Paste Special offers a choice of import formats when transferring from other applications.
• Opens Max4 files - make use of a huge number of SWiSH Max4 samples and freeware files.
• SWiSH miniMax4 SWF movies can be imported into any other Flash application with ease.
• Advanced compression features help keep your SWF file sizes small.
• Exported HTML can use a custom template to include Javascript, CSS, PHP and more.
• Export straight to PNG or GIF animation.
• NEW! New SWF Export options.

Import SWFs, Graphics, Sound & More

Import SWFs, sound, graphics and text files. SWiSH miniMax4 imports all the file types you are likely to need for your Flash animation including: txt, bmp, dib, gif, jpg, if, jpeg, png, wmf, emf, swf (both compressed and uncompressed), exe (Flash Projector), wav and mp3 files.

Advanced Export Control

You can easily export your SWF movies complete with HTML, PNG images and GIF animations. SWiSH Max's SWF movies can be imported into any other Flash application with ease.

Scripting

• All interactivity can be added through a simple menu interface.
• An 'easy scripting' assistant prompts for all the options and writes the script for you - no syntax errors ever again!
• A debugger simplifies finding and fixing errors in your scripts.

Scripting Made Simple

All interactivity in your SWiSH miniMax4 movie can be added through a simple menu interface, so you have full coding capabilities by selecting the actions and events you need