Professional Web graphics and animation!

Launch your creativity into orbit with Adobe LiveMotion. Whether you're producing individual Web graphics or entire pages complete with interactivity, animation, and sound, LiveMotion delivers the creative tool set you need to take your Web designs to the next level.

Features

PRODUCTIVITY

Object-based Timeline

• Modeled after the Adobe After Effects Timeline
• Multi-object animation with independent animation of object attributes
• Auto keyframe generation and auto tweening
• Support for independent looping animations

Nondestructive authoring environment Styles

• Graphic styles
• Rollover/interactivity styles
• Animation styles

Object Aliases

• Rollovers
  Support for remote rollovers, animated rollovers,and complex menus
• Visual feedback between trigger and remote objects

Library palette

• Store animations for use in multiple documents

Intuitive user interface

• Based on the standard Adobe user interface
• Rulers,guides,and grids
• Live object transformations
• Movable anchor point for transformations

Behaviors and labels

• Stop, Play, Change State, Go to Relative Time, Go to Label, Go to URL, RunJavaScript, Load Movie,Unload Movie, Wait for Download, and more

Export options

• Multiple file format export options
• AutoLayout and AutoSlicing
• Preview AutoSlice
• Preview Motion Path
• Active Export Preview (displays file size of selected object and tells whether the object will export as a vector or bitmap)
• Per-object compression
• Export report

CREATIVITY

Sound

• Streaming sounds
• Event sounds tied to behaviors
• Volume, pan, trim, and loop controls

• Color schemes picker

• Nondestructive Photoshop filter support

Integrated content-creation tools

• B�zier Pen tool
• Shape tools
• Motion Path

Masks Image adjustments

• Tint, saturation, brightness, contrast, posterize Distortions
• Twirl, Lens, Spherize, Quantize

3-D effects

• Emboss, Bevel, Cutout, Ripple
• Gradients and gradient opacity masks

INTEGRATION

Adobe Illustrator

• Import native Illustrator layered files
• Preserve Illustrator layers as separate objects
• Import Illustrator layers as a keyframe sequence
• Edit Original command

Adobe Photoshop

• Import native Photoshop layered files
• Preserve Photoshop layers as separate objects
• Import Photoshop layers as a keyframe sequence
• Edit Original command

Adobe GoLive

• Batch replace HTML elements with LiveMotion images
• Compatible HTML and JavaScript generation

Import formats

• Support for GIF, JPEG, PNG, EPS, TIFF, PICT, PSD 5.5 or earlier, and AI 6.0-8.0
• Support for more than 20 import sound formats, including AU, AIFF, and WAV

Export formats

• Support for GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD 5.5, animated GIF, and SWF
• Sound is exported to the Web standard MP3 format