Trivantis Unveils Flash Creator

  • By Tim Sohn
  • 11/02/11

Trivantis has released Snap! Empower, a new tool to create and share Flash animations.

Snap! Empower is designed to allow anyone to develop interactive Flash material, with access to hundreds of templates and dozens of pre-built animations. It also provides the option of creating customizable resources from scratch, including photos, audio, video, animations, interactions, and timing.

Additional features include:

  • Media sharing on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and snapchannel.com;
  • The ability to send animations to mobile devices with HTML5;
  • Integration with Snap! By Lectora, which converts Microsoft PowerPoint documents to Flash format;
  • Drag-and-drop functionality; and
  • The ability to publish interactions to a variety of formats, including SWF, AVI, FLV, MP4, OGG, and 3GP.

The desktop software features three main areas: page editor, project map, and design center. The page editor lets the user move material around, delete unnecessary elements and add new ones, as well as change the design of the page. Project map organizes the material, allows the user to re-order pages, and replace material from the library. The design center includes the library with images, video and audio files, and page templates.

Software requirements include Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP (Service Pack 2 and above); Adobe Flash Player 9 and up; 1 GHz Pentium processor or higher, with 2 GHz recommended; and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and above. Users can view created Snap! Empower projects using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0, Firefox 2.0 and up, or Safari 2.0 or higher.

Snap! Empower costs $99 and is available now.

To download a free trial, or for more information, visit snapempower.com.

About the Author

Tim Sohn is a 10-year veteran of the news business, having served in capacities from reporter to editor-in-chief of a variety of publications including Web sites, daily and weekly newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and wire services. He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @editortim.

Featured

  • Abstract AI circuit board pattern

    Nonprofit LawZero to Work Toward Safer, Truthful AI

    Turing Award-winning AI researcher Yoshua Bengio has launched LawZero, a nonprofit aimed at developing AI systems that prioritize safety and truthfulness over autonomy.

  • abstract pattern of cybersecurity, ai and cloud imagery

    Report Identifies Malicious Use of AI in Cloud-Based Cyber Threats

    A recent report from OpenAI identifies the misuse of artificial intelligence in cybercrime, social engineering, and influence operations, particularly those targeting or operating through cloud infrastructure. In "Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI: June 2025," the company outlines how threat actors are weaponizing large language models for malicious ends — and how OpenAI is pushing back.

  • tutor and student working together at a laptop

    You've Paid for Tutoring. Here's How to Make Sure It Works.

    As districts and states nationwide invest in tutoring, it remains one of the best tools in our educational toolkit, yielding positive impacts on student learning at scale. But to maximize return on investment, both financially and academically, we must focus on improving implementation.

  • red brick school building with a large yellow "AI" sign above its main entrance

    New National Academy for AI Instruction to Provide Free AI Training for Educators

    In an effort to "transform how artificial intelligence is taught and integrated into classrooms across the United States," the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in partnership with Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the United Federation of Teachers, is launching the National Academy for AI Instruction, a $23 million initiative that will provide access to free AI training and curriculum for all AFT members, beginning with K-12 educators.