Adobe Max 2007: Sneak Peeks October 2, 2007

This message brought to by the letters A and B. A for Adobe kicks ass and Blooz Brothers...doing a faithful rendition of the blues brothers.
3rd grade easy for drag and drop, multi-camera, green screen support, video streaming live or output to AVI. No timeline, simple tray metaphor. Anybody can now be their own video blog reporter/news station.
Skype killer? Voip, P2P data streams, *in the flash player*, completely brandable, activity detection of audio, PSN connections (e.g. cellphone), directory service.

Flash Home, integrated into the mobile device on the hardware level, not a browser, meaning you can directly boot into it.  API's to get photos, contact lists, call lists, web data, Highly optimized serverside data, RIA development metaphors on the mobile platform. Actionscript api's. e.g.

function onIncomingCall(...){

switch(incomingCall.areaCode)

case 650

//load up bay area graphics

case 310

//load up  Los Angeles graphics
}

Photoshop LE. Consumer online version of Photoshop, amazingly easy to edit images online.  Flex based UI, tree based controls, real time client side flash previews of image transforms. Clone tool. Command based implementation with a full history (non-destructive).

Fireworks with MXML aware wireframing easily skinnable, publishable to Flex and AIR. Looks like Fireworks is turning into the skinner for Flex apps. Hotspots and Javascript for some interactivity.

Coldfusion is now a targetted language to AIR, with offline online synchronization of data (think outbox, inbox), with only a few tags/lines. Seems like .Net targetting one runtime, tight web integration, multiple incoming paths to creating content....except. I seriously hope this put the nails into Vista/Microsoft.
It's interesting to hear the applause as related to the crowd interests, photoshop, coldfusion.
Web to Print: Indesign server for RIA as the front end, output to print. Online verison of the offline product used for layout, upload a template with multiple themes, live preview wysiwyg, nice side bar for task flow, accordion flow. Once data is captured reflow it into other designs. Output PDF for local or printers.

10 years of flash, what's in the next 10?  Flash IDE is having another major update, live video during editing (duh!), pick colors of the playing video etc. Better WYSIWIG = less hitting test/preview (yes!).  3d transforms, live filters in. Graphical path on the stage for animating paths...no more keyframes. Tweens aren't a part of the timeline, and can have replaceable targets. BONES!! on the shapes!!! and MovieCLips with runtime IK. *and the crowd goes WILD!!!!!*

Flash Runtime integrated inside the Acrobat Runtime.  PDF == portable media format, think of it as zipped secure packages of the web emailable anywhere. e.g. H264 video or AAC video/sound embedded. Say capture a website and make it a PDF.  Bridging the Javascript of PDF and Actionscript of Flash with the webaccess, so dynamic, so a PDF link jumps a flash map browser. Real time collaboration on the document when using the CocoMo product, including server side push.

Flex on linux. I didn't realize that wasn't possible...eh isn't that what Java was supposed to do run anywhere? vi + shells scripts.... nah Flex 3 Builder Alpha on Linux (on the labs!). code hinting, debug, code hinting, etc...no design view though yet.
C/C++ -> Flash AS3 Conversion.  Meaning you can translate C libraries (e.g. XSLT, PHP) to Flash, and then wherever swf can go, e.g. AIR.  They demoed converting quake 1.0 into flash.  You can think of Flash virtual machine increasingly simialr to the a virtual OS, that's portable.

Seam Carving, the engineer Shair was hired by Adobe and I can imagine his tech will be used anywhere that images get output in the Adobe. Interestingly it's only 20 lines of code, and the metadata is compact so it can go wherever the image goes and can be reflowed, this seems similar to wavelets minus the ability to retarget.