FITC KEYNOTE HIGHLIGHTS

SUNDAY, APRIL 22 2007 @ 02:37 PM

Notes from Adobe's keynote at FitC Toronto 2007

- Flash Player 9 statistics. As pointed out by Emmy Huang early this week, official Flash Player penetration for mature markets is at 83.4%, nine months after it's release.
- Mike Downey showed Papervision3d samples to illustrate Flash 9 processing speed improvements.
- Key new features of Flash CS3: Photoshop and Illustrator documents import, timeline-based to actionscript-based animation conversion.
- Ted Patrick still loves the timeline.
- Flash/Flex integration kit: an extension for Flash CS3 that allows timeline-based animations to be exported as SWCs from Flash, and then imported into Flex, and controlled from within a Flex application.
- Kevin Towes demoed the new Flash Media Encoder, and a handful of Flash and Flex applications that take advantage of the new features of Flash Media Server 2.
- The keynote ended with a quick walk-through of a few Apollo applications, including the new Adobe Media Player, to be released with Apollo.

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