THE Agency

Agent B and Agent F (Ben Forta)

Fighting against Status Quo

Flash
Flash Bones and IK
New animation style
xfl is new format for importing

Photoshop
Content Aware Scale
Automasking and depth of field
Native 3D support

Thermo (Flash Catalyst)
Designers can create a take a PSD file and import it and then add interactivity without coding
What happens behind the scene is a Flex app is coded
Created Transitions and events just like in Flash
Artwork created into components
Converted an Illustrator artwork into a scrollbar component with a few components
FXG is a subset of MXML that Thermo creates for understanding artwork between Adobe apps
Added a 3D transition to make 3D flipping widget that transitioned
Compiles to a SWF when you test.
FXP is how a Thermo File gets into Flex – Flex Project File
DVD’s for Thermo is now available for conference attendees
The full version is going to be on Labs early  2009

Could we run

Project Alchemy

Allows you to run C and C++ code within Flash Player 10

Was able to import encryption directly into Flash

SHA1
SH256
MD5

can now load other multimedia formats
Alchemy using DCRAW can convert itno FLEX lib and
AS3 code can convert RAW into PNG but can use Alchemy then use C code to convert even faster
ALchemy can import and render PDF
Showed Quake running in Flash
Also Show Nintendo Mario Bro’s running in Flash Player

Gumbo(Next version of Flex)
Available to conference goers
A few clicks gave Agent B full import
ColdFusion runs in Flex Builder(Gumbo) environment
Launch server monitor from IDE
Start/Stop Server from IDE
Automatically knows data sources and has autocomplete for all code as good as Flex
ORM is built in and supported
ColdFusion interface is not in yet but Labs has a sign up page
Gumbo supports PHP and other languages
Intorducing new services that can check data feeds live
Gumbo has a mapping for data managaement
Automation of events and data management
Logging and debugging is fantastic
Apply a theme –

Themes will be available for download from Labs

Affino plug in  developed by Ensemble media let’s developers create Flex apps from Visual Studio
Not available yet.  Coming down the line
.NET developers have not had a usable technology to create Flex

Dreamweaver and AJAX
SPRY was the only integrated AJAX frmeworks – now it is able for any framework

• Jquery
• Moo tools
• Spry

Deep dive into code components and colors directly into

Flash Player – Google
Google and Adobe has created what is called a virtual user and new Flash Player takes commends from virtual user to scrub Flash.
Virtual User and Flash Player can pull dynamic data
Use swfOBject
Talk tomorrow at 2:00 – Jim

FMS 3.5
Dynamic Streaming (Multiple bitrates)
StreamFlashHD.com allows new users to stream
Dreamweaver has Dynamic Streaming preview in
Flash Media Live Encoder (now avavilable on Adobe) allows you to take camera source and
Just like DVR (TIVO) over the internet
RTMFP (Real Time Media Flash Protocol) – allows for Flash to Flash(Flash to AIR, AIR to AIR) communication without a server

Groups.Adobe.com

Groups.Adobe.com
Starting User Groups – ust visit the site and then click the Start User Group

5:45 MAX awards and sneeks

MAX 2009 Los Angelos Oct 4 Announced.