Christophe Herreman

[10.32] Aral is about to start. My laptop is running out of juice, so we’ll see how far we get.

“Ruling the Web”

He brought a flying pig or so. He needs 12 volunteers. The Belgian crowd is frozen to their seats. I can’t go of course, I need to blog He handing out post-it notes. He wants people to write down interesting things and paste the notes on the walls.

He shot his flying pig into the audience.

Showing FutureSplash Animator.

Snakes on a plane, hehehe. angryalien.com

32 Things every flasher should know. Flash Gordon FTW!

“Flash is 99% bad”, Mr. Nielsen or was it the lama.

Skip intro, Flashturbation is bad.

[10.43] Going through the 32 things. Talks about the evolution of the ActionScript language.

My battery is about to die. Sorry guys.

I’m sitting at the keynote of Multi-Mania. Serge and Jason are talking about the history of Flash. Actually, Serge is talking to the crowd and Jason is adding some sound effects. They are quite a funny duo

[9.40] Serge is talking about The Open Screen Project.

Flash Player 10 now. Let’s talk new features:
- custom filters and effects: Pixelbender, scripting language to write your own filters. You can use these custom filters in across application…Photoshop, Flash
- Rich text layout: Hebrew
- enhanced video support

MAKE SOME NOISE: The campaign by Andre Michelle. Serge is showing some examples made by the community. An equalizer built in Flash. Oldskooll Atari tunes interpreted at runtime.

Serge shows some more demos. Very performant filtering. And a 3D demo of Doom, awesome!

New services by Adobe:
- Scene7 imaging
- SHARE
- Pacifica
- Cocomo

More info on Pacifica: Voice over IP for Flash. Serge shows the Adobe Directory, internal tool to find colleagues. Serge is available! Adobe Directory is an AIR application that is connected to the Pacifica server and is able to call Cell Phones. Live demo…the phone actually rings! Applause…

Adobe Flash CS4: Demo time. Don’t click that button Serge (he has a paper with instructions about what not to do ;-))! He creates a motion tween, applause! Now moves the animation line. Oh no, Serge is going to click the button…I saw that! My god, this is stand-up comedy, hehe

Serge is showing 3D support. Rotating text in multiple axes. Jason should be the voice for movie trailers. “But wait! There’s more”.

Serge is connecting some balls. Inverse Kinematics FTW!!! This is awesome.

[10.10] Jason now takes over. He’s hilarious, hahaha. Will be showing some new features. Talking about some new ways to work with video. He’s very excited.

He shows OnLocation perhaps running on a Macintosh. Capture video and add relevant metadata. The metadata stays with the files troughout the production process. Now shows Premiere Pro. Speech Transcription, Speech to Text. Explains how the subtitles will be searchable. Scrubs the timeline, text is highlighted.

Jason also has a list. Don’t show this next thing

Now shows SoundBooth. Editing multiple tracks. Synchronizes the changes between SoundBooth and Premiere.

Showing differences in loudness. Equalize volume levels. He’s really good at sound effects. He spent a lot of time at the dark room…and still. “Who’s the Gorilla, he’s my brother!”.

[10.21] Device Central now. Emulate playback of any type of content on mobile devices. Exports presets to After Effects. “You click render and…. you’re done!”

Serge is taking over. MAX 2008 Europe, 1-4 December 2008 in Milan, Italy.

Applause, applause, applause…

…The End…

Just a quick note to let you know that I’ll be giving a presentation on Prana at the Dutch Flex Usergroup called Flugr on the 13th of June. So if you’re in the neighborhood (Utrecht) and would like to meet, feel free to visit the event.

The following sessions will be given:

- Benjamin Dobbler & Stephan Janssen: The creation of Parleys
- Nicolas Lierman: Advanced Flex
- myself: The Prana Framework

For more info, please visit the Flugr website at http://www.flugr.nl/

I put up the slides of the Prana presentation I did on the Adobe Usergroup - AIR Pre-Release Tour. You can download them at the Talks section or here (direct download).

Further, a number of people have blogged about the meeting:
- Ward de Langhe
- Gilles Vandenoostende
- Wim Vanhenden

Yesterday evening, the 5th annual FeWeb conference took place in Edegem. I did a session on our Edumatic product development with Flex and what tools we use on a daily basis. Below is a download link for those interested in my presentation files. The slides contain some useful links to the tools mentioned.

feweb-12-12-2007.ppt (273 kb)
feweb-12-12-2007.pptx (187 kb)

For a review of the conference I can recommend the following post by Peter Elst: FeWeb - Flex, Silverlight, AIR and more.