Astro is a text effects creator for Macromedia Flash.

Your text effect can be further spiced up by adding Flash background and foreground effects. There's a choice from more than 450 (!!) text effects and over 80 other Flash effects.
With the available additional effects plugins, Astro offers more than 1250 unique text effects.
There is no other Flash text effects program which will offer you such a large number of effects, or can even come close to it!

Moreover, Astro can add background pictures and sound effects to your Flash file.