Importing Flash animation into Catalyst

Is Catalyst yet capable of importing and using movie clips made in flash, or it can only use static images on layers from Photoshop and Illustrator? If not, I'd like to say that I really like the idea of making Flash animation movie clips how I usually do, but then being able to utilize them in the Catalyst environment. So for example le't say I want to create rollover animations for buttons, could I make that in Flash and then bring that into Catalyst?
Also, do I need CS4 to use Catalyst? Thanks.

Hi,
Creating transitions in Flash Catalyst does not require writing any ActionScript code. Although animation in Flash Catalyst is most commonly created via state transitions, you can also create animation without states by using an action sequence (which you can trigger from any interaction, just like a state transition).
Here are some video tutorials introducing animation in Flash Catalyst:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-flash-catalyst-cs5/gs05-adding-transitions-between-pages-a nd-states/
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-catalyst-cs5-feature-tour/working-with-transition-timeline s/
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-catalyst-1-1-with-doug-winnie/wireframes-come-to-life-with -transitions-episode-6/
Hope that helps!
- Peter

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