Christophe Herreman

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…

The project guys at Indie Group did an excellent job with the new Terre Bleue site in which they use Papervision 3D. Congrats all!

Go check it out at www.terrebleue.be

I got this message today when starting Flash 8. Didn’t know this name was still used internally. It reminded me of the time I wrote my thesis on Flash.

Here are some interesting links on Flash history:

• http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/events/john_gay/
• http://www.flashmagazine.com/413.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash

I was trying to create a typesafe enum today to hold a Debit and Credit value and realized it could not that easily be done in AS3. In AS2 or in Java (prior to Java 5 when there was no enum construct) you could do the trick by making the constructor of the enum private and instantiate the values as static constants. (See this blog post for an AS2 example.)

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Well, out of pure boredom, I have been thinking about songs for a virtual OSFlash band. I know there are some musicians in the scene, so maybe one day we can do some cool covers by sending each other recorded tracks and mixing them together. I’m on guitars btw. I know Aral would make a great front man and John Grden could play the drums.

Here are some of the songs:
- Enter Sandbox
- Master of Sockets
- Flex ‘m All
- 127.0.0.1, the Number of the Beast
- Scenes From a Memory Leak
- Multi-Threading the Needle

…and we can also cover the MVC song.

A little trivia: Anyone who can find the original song titles and the bands?
Have fun and if you have any cool songs, leave them in the comments