Strong video capabilities
Create an enhanced multimedia experience using H.264-video integration that lets you play full-screen, high-definition video in your multimedia applications and games. Stream audio and video over the Internet using Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) support.

Enriched audio capabilities
Make your multimedia applications and games sound as real as they look with state-of-the-art audio capabilities that include 5.1 channel surround sound, 16-channel sound mixing, and advanced filters.

Powerful 3D support
Incorporate 3D to deliver more engaging experiences. Rapidly create rich 3D environments using millions of ready-made 3D models available via Google SketchUp, and take advantage of DirectX 9 support for native 3D rendering.

Advanced physics with NVIDIA PhysX support
Build games with realistic collisions and create simulations that model real-world gravity and other forces. The NVIDIA® PhysX™ physics engine delivers advanced dynamic motion and interaction.

Support for Adobe Flash 9 software and video created with Flash technology
Expand your creative options by seamlessly importing content created with Adobe® Flash® 9 software into your applications. Launch Flash (version 8 or earlier) from within Adobe Director® software and have your changes saved automatically.

Unicode support
Easily localize your games, applications, demos, training courses, and prototypes for international markets with Unicode support.

Enhanced text rendering engine
Display smooth, crisp text in your demos, courses, games, and other applications with a more powerful text engine that improves font rendering.

New datatype
Access and manipulate binary data using ByteArray datatype.

Enhanced Script Browser
Save time working with script-sensitive movies using the enhanced Script Browser, which provides click-and-script convenience; easy access to information about functions, events, keywords, and commands; and a complete Lingo and JavaScript dictionary.

Bitmap filters
Achieve an even wider variety of rich visual effects, including blur, drop shadow, bevel, glow, and more, with bitmap filters that you can apply through the user interface or scripting.

Xtra plug-ins
Extend your authoring environment, as well as the playback engine, with an ever-expanding ecosystem of third-party Xtras.

Easy multiversion output
Broaden your market reach by authoring once and publishing across platforms and technologies with output that is customer-ready for virtually all computers, kiosks, DVDs, CDs, and the web.