What is the best 3rd Party Flash-base Software

[triton360]

What do you think is the best 3rd party flash based software?
Ex. Swish - I'm looking to buy one but I'm not sure what's the best - and maybe there are some out I dont even konw of. I looking to use it to speed up animation - as well as make some eCards?

Thanks for yoru help and time
JT

ATL

[Peter Rogers]

SwishMax is far and away the best. It has decent vector drawing tools, scripting, streaming sound etc and good compression for both your final .swf and contained images (if needed)....(Good support too....are you listening Macromedia ?)

I use Flash daily at work and we still use SwishMax to speed up certain tasks.

[triton360]

Yes, I use flash, I've got Flash MX 2004 Pro
and I use it a lot, I've read about Swish - are you able to build in it and export it to flash - or is it just the other way around our not at all?

Is everything just .swf

[Peter Rogers]

To preserve actions I export from SwishMax as a .swf and use load movie.... (so as you suggested everything is just a .swf)...

If you just want swish text effects in Flash, Flash Extension