Adobe MAX 08 – Sneaks

Heidi Williams MC’ed

Client

Flash Media Plus

RTMP Application Level Mutlticast in Flash Player – Michael Thornbuorgh

Unlimited Real Time

Nitro – Platform for widgets

Drag web widgets frin the web to the desktop and it creates a widget
Nitro is the same for Mobile
Widgets will be deployed on TV

portablewidgets@adobe.com if you want to build widgets

Durango- Application Mashups in Flex and AIR

Drag and drop of components from one component to another.
It is live on Labs as of 20 Minutes ago.

TOOLS

Photoshop – Next Generation Imaging Tools
Image Search – Showed images that were found based on another image

Image Compositing – He dragged and dropped a bird onto a scene of a beach and it blended in seemlessly.  Did the same thing with a swimmer and then added a dog and gave it proper shadowing.

Content Intelligence Toolkit – video
Separated video by scene
Can search video by lighting
Can search by colors
Can find faces and search all video with faces
Speech to Text engine that pulls up only the segment that have the searched terms

Dreamweaver Web Widgets
Ajax Rain – website that has over 1000 AJAX widgets
Working with the open AJAX alliance
Showed Adobe Widget Conifgurator – allows to test drive a widget and paly around with look, feel, and functionality of other peoples widgets.
Today the Web Widget SDK is available labs.adobe.com

Infinite Images
One of the most amazing thigs that I have seen.  This was insame.  It allows for a combination of images to do a fly through, rotation, zoom in/out, etc…  Look for the videe coming soon.

Services

Live Cycle and Creative Services
The guy in front of me giggled involuntarily when they showed how this allows for video to be deployed to AIR apps and streamed seamlessly.  Digital Rights can be pushed into the video.  They also showed how a reviewer opens the AIR app and gives feedback that is streamed real time to all the other clients and then back in Premiere Pro it had all f the feedback and let the video guy to go to that exact spot in the video. where the comments were.

Ted Patrick wants everyone to go to the party.

Meer Meer (Mirror-Mirror)

This service allows for anyone using DreamWeaver to test in Meer Meer and see what a website looks in any browser and any OS.  It let’s you see 2 up view as well as Onion skin view, which overlays the two over the top of each other.  It also includes zooming.  This is the best tool for designing consistent web pages that I have ever seen.  IT works with Dreamweaver and local content without having to publish to the web.

Server-side ActionScript

ServerSide ActionScript with ColdFusion and Flex is now possible.