The ability to import a Flash Professional .fla file format into Catalyst would be a great benefit. Especially since there was an official workflow between Flash Pro and Flex 3 for creating graphical, stateful skins for flex (ie File...New...Flex Skins). It seems strange that in the new workflow, Flash is not treated as a first class citizen such as Illustrator or Photoshop. For large libraries of Flash built skins, the process of converting these to Flex 4 skins is quite painful as the current builds of Catalyst merely provide Importing of FXG. When a Flash-created Flex skin symbol is exported as .fxg from Flash, and imported into Catalyst, only the first frame/state is available.

Curently, when viewing a video embedded on a page and there's latency loading the video, you'll see the video player load first in a smaller size, then resize to the dimensions of your video as it loads the video.

I'd like to see the video player stay fixed to the size of the video and in the precise position I placed it even before the video loads.

Please consider adding native PNG support from Fireworks. At the moment, designers who develop prototypes in Fireworks choose to this path over Photoshop because of its usability and ease of use for concepts designs.

In order to port Fireworks PNG files into Catalyst, designers must first export the files into a .PSD, or .AI format. As you know, this process is not ideal seeing that it introduces fidelity issues, and can changes the character of the design.

Integrating native PNG support, on top of the current .AI, and .PSD support, will not only ensure the shelf life of Fireworks, but provide a quick alternative to designing rich internet application prototypes for clients.

It would be extremely useful when after importing an swf file into catalyst I could see the actual SWF and not just an icon representing it. Plus It would be also useful if I can customize it as well as far as the design/interactivity concerned.

I think it would be good to be able to specify the resolution when importing from common image/PDF/PPT files.

I got a bit of a problem to import my psd with several layers in it and with hi-res, that I had to save the PSD into a new file with a specific size and dimension than import the PSD.

Hi,

It would be great to have the ability to import from PDFs or PPT. 

I got a basic idea and it was extremely fast a simple to create it in PPT, but I could not use it at all, except if I exported it as PDF, than import it in AI and export from AI to Layered PSD than set its resolution and import it into FC.

Quite some work.

Would be good to have ability to import either Directly from PPT or PDFs and after be able to edit/reorganize it. 

Hi,

This is a great tool for Designers. I was up and running in no time (no previous Flash experience). One of the things that could be greatly improve is by adding ability to manually re-order pages to create more natural page flow.

Can pages belonging to same menu item be stacked together for better visibility-

Also an additional visual tool to organise links, something like in Adobe Encore, where designer can make quick visual button links.

Is there currently a support for e-mail links-

What is going to be the minimum hardware requirement in order to run full version of Catalyst- I can run BETA 2 on my MacMini 2Ghz, 2Gb RAM and 64-bit graphic card. Works OK although sometimes is quite slow, and requires re-start. I have managed to design 20 page (current maximum) web site which works well. Works better on my new iMac.

One of the most annoying things is that once you have loaded PSD composition and saved fxp project there is no option (or I could not find it-) to reload u