Format Description Properties
. ID: fdd000248
. Short name: SWF_8
. Content categories: moving image
. Format category: file format
. Last significant update: 2007-02-08
. Draft status: Partial
Macromedia Flash SWF File Format, Version 8.
Binary file format that Delivers vector graphics (especially animations) and other data types, including "bitmapped" video, over the Internet to the Flash Player. A more complete format description for Flash is offered for SWF_7 , version 7 of the specification.
In 2005, Adobe purchased Macromedia and a branding changeover began. The documentation for the Flash (SWF) format, version 8, was disseminated from the Adobe Web site but still carried the Macromedia brand on the cover sheet.
The October 2005 issue of Macworld magazine reports that the Flash Professional 8 application offers a new video codec called VP6 from a company named .
FLA Macromedia Flash FLA Project File Format. Explanatory note: SWF files are typically derived from ("save as") a FLA file