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Starting with the February 2016 release, Flash Professional has been renamed Adobe Animate. This change more accurately represents Animate's position as the premiere animation tool for the web and beyond. With the February 2016 release, Flash Professional is listed as Adobe Animate in the Creative Cloud desktop app.

Flash Professional CC is part of Creative Cloud. That means you have access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they're available. You can use Sync Settings and Save to Cloud to keep your settings, shortcuts, and files organized across multiple computers. And Creative Cloud is integrated with Behance, so you can share your projects and get immediate feedback from creatives around the world.

Work faster than ever before with a 64-bit architecture, a new streamlined user interface, and more connected tools. Create native HTML5 content and export high-definition video and audio. Flash Professional CC lets you share work directly from within the application and sync your settings across machines, and get access to new features the moment they're released. Your entire creative world, together in one place. Only in Creative Cloud.

HTML5 Canvas support

Build interactive content in a familiar authoring environment that is now customized for the HTML5 Canvas platform. Add frame scripts using native support for JavaScript, including code hinting, code coloring, and more.

Part of Creative Cloud

With Flash Professional CC — part of Creative Cloud — your creative process becomes seamless, intuitive, and more connected. Get it as a single-app membership or with a Creative Cloud complete membership, which also includes every other creative tool.

NEW Improved HTML publishing

Be more creative with enhanced HTML5 support using the updated Toolkit for CreateJS, which includes new functionality for buttons, hit areas, and motion curves.

NEW 64-bit architecture

Re-engineered from the ground up, 64-bit Flash Professional CC is more modular and delivers unprecedented speed and stability. Easily manage multiple large files, publish more quickly, and experience a more responsive timeline.

Sync Settings

Work the way you like on any of your computers — Mac or PC. Synchronize your workspace settings to Creative Cloud — including Illustrator preferences, presets, brushes, and libraries — so they go where you go.

Simplified user interface

Focus clearly on your content with a streamlined user interface. Dialog boxes and panels are more intuitive and easier to navigate. Choose between a light or dark user interface.

Powerful code editor

Write code more efficiently using the new code editor, built with the open source Scintilla library. Search across multiple files using a new Find and Replace panel to update code fast.

Real-time drawing

See full previews instantly — with fill and stroke color — as you draw, using any of the shape tools in Flash Professional. Your designs will take shape faster than ever before.

Code profiling in Adobe Scout CC

Detect potential problems in your code earlier in your workflow by integrating with Scout, a tool that offers advanced profiling and analysis of items such as CPU, GPU, memory use, and performance.

Custom metadata APIs

Design layouts, dialog boxes, game assets, or game levels using a new set of JavaScript APIs. Assign properties to these elements as you create them in Flash Professional.

Wide platform and device support

Reach a wider audience on both Android and iOS devices by exporting or targeting your content for the latest Adobe AIR and Flash Player runtimes.