Universal, please!

The app is good functionally, making Flash text actions from the available effects far easier to make than in Flash itself. It's definitely a time saver, and with a little imagination, can produce very appealing and clever results. I'll hand it that nicely.

However, the GUI needs a major overhaul, with a major sized design/preview field that renders the spacing properly as inputted, instead of entering the text into a tiny window and needing to render a full preview to see results.

It also needs partial preview reviews, instead of start to finish only. In long sequences, it can take a long time to review minor changes. You can spend a lot of time waiting for the results of your changes to be viewable. This eats a lot of time in the process. The ability to see the preview from one flag to another is needed badly.

It's okay if you don't stack a lot of sequences together in a single project, creating instead more shorter sequences and editing them into a whole in another application, like Flash or SWF n' Play. Trying to do a five minute text presentation as a standalone export would be a serious pain with a lot of idle time in a long day.

If these two concepts were built into the GUI, it would be a major production tool for all Flash designers. As is, the GUI is a little self-limiting in the design process, a specialty tool that's a little too lacking to be an everyday app for the pro. It does a really nice job, but it needs better work habits to streamline production for serious Flash users.

Maybe when it gets a little older.

It is quite good for those occasional users who want to use Flash to animate a little text for a web site. It is easier than Flash by a long shot, and the limitations aren't that big an issue for those who don't use it regularly and don't mind blind tweaking.

I bought this app a few weeks ago when I had to get a few banners with Flash text effects done in a hurry, but didn't have the time to deal with Flash.

This app is great for somple Flash text applications...you can't expect it to be REAL versatile though, but it does EXACTLY what it's supposed to do and does it with incredible ease.

It's never crashed on me once, although, it doesn't seem to save the project if you're like me and have the good habit of doing the command-S, "save-as-you-go" method just in case it does crash. You can command-S and then close the program a second later and it asks you if you want to save. But that's my only gripe.

Very recommended!

Would be great if it wouldn't keep crashing after the first effect preview. Perhaps if it was rewritten in Cocoa it wouldn't crash as much. And it'd have a much prettier interface, which, as strange as it might sound, is very important for most Mac users.