On October 15, Adobe announced Creative Suite 4 is now shipping . For a limited time, a special introductory offer enables customers with older qualifying products to enjoy savings of up to US$200 off their actual upgrade price. The offer ends on February 28, 2009 in North America, for more detailed information on availability in other regions please visit our FAQ.
Some of you might have read an article published by Reuters on Friday, September 19th suggesting that Adobe Flash Media Server 3 and the RTMPE protocol are not secure. We feel it is important for our customers, users and members of the press to receive clarification given that the claims are factually incorrect.
Following is a statement we hope clears up the inaccuracies and claims from the story.
A recent article incorrectly states that a security flaw exists in Adobe Flash Media Server software. Adobe acknowledges that not all customers using Adobe Flash Media Server software are aware they must utilize RTMPe or RTMPte (tunneled version) combined with SWF verification to provide maximum content protection. Adobe is committed to the security of all products and is actively working to ensure all customers are educated on how to properly protect content delivery. For more information on using RTMPe or RTMPte and SWF verification, Adobe Flash Media Server 3 customers can go to http://adobe.com/go/kb405456.
Today Adobe announced Creative Suite 4, the biggest launch in the company’s history. We know what you’re thinking and yes we did say this when we launched CS3. However, the statement still holds true. For CS4, we not only updated all of the suites and 13 point products, Adobe has also added the support of several new services and technologies to the Creative Suite workflow.
We issued seven announcements today (yes, seven!) that highlight the Design editions, Web editions, Production Premium and Master Collection, as well as individual releases for InDesign, Photoshop and Device Central. Please visit the Adobe pressroom for all of the news.
We have also launched a newly redesigned Adobe TV site which includes 10 hours of CS4 content including feature tours, demos and tutorials.
This week, Adobe revealed plans to announce Creative Suite 4 on Tuesday, September 23, 2008. To be among the first to hear about the largest product launch in Adobe’s history, sign up to listen to a special web broadcast here.
In case you missed it, last week, Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 which integrates the newly announced Acrobat 9 Pro into the Premium and Standard editions of the Design and Web Suites, as well as the Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection are now shipping. In addition, Adobe has added Fireworks CS3 into Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium for designers who need to rapidly prototype and generate Web sites.
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro enables designers to collaborate on documents more effectively and efficiently with the ability to create and manage forms and collect forms data more easily using Acrobat 9 Pro and the Acrobat.com . Acrobat.com is a new suite of hosted services that allows designers to co-navigate PDF documents with clients or colleagues in real time. The service is currently available if you sign up for the public beta.
Acrobat 9 Pro also includes an Overprint Preview feature which allows print professionals to accurately view interactions between overlapping objects.
To read the full press release, please visit the Adobe Press Room.
This week, Adobe unveiled a new kuler desktop version of the popular online color application, kuler. In addition to the ability to browse color themes for inspiration while online and offline, users can now drag and drop themes to their own desktops as transparent, scalable "tear offs." As an Adobe AIR application, kuler now allows users to access the Web-based color tool directly from their desktop for easy access and navigation. To learn more visit a feature overview or go to Adobe Labs at http://kuler.adobe.com.
Students participating in Adobe Youth Voices, the company’s global philanthropy program, today had a chance to show their work at a screening hosted by Adobe in conjunction with activities related to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Traveling from East Palo Alto, Calif., Seattle, New York and Salt Lake City, six teens debuted films, sharing views on issues ranging from homelessness to friendships that dissolve racial boundaries.
A sampling of the student films include:
“Disorder,” created by Sami Kubo from Reel Grrls in Seattle, takes audiences inside the mind of a girl who struggles to communicate in a world where her way of thinking is deemed a "learning disability."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ5uysGj0FE
Members of Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula (San Francisco Bay Area) screened two works. “Just Say It,” by Maria Centeno, focuses on the visual representation of a spoken word poem telling the story of a young woman growing up in East Palo Alto. “The Pace Maker,” by Francisco Espinoza, follows a troubled 17-year old with a new lease on life, a new relationship with his father and a view of a brighter future for himself.
Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved communities with the skills and access to multimedia and digital tools that empower them to share their ideas, demonstrate their potential and take action in their communities. To view additional Adobe Youth Voices projects from around the world, visit: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/philanthropy/youthvoices/gallery/
Adobe Systems today announced it was honored this evening with the Corporate Achievement Award from Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Presented as part of the 2007 National Design Awards, the Corporate Achievement Award recognizes corporations that help advance the relationship between design and quality of life.
The 2007 National Design Awards nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures and corporate leaders from every state in the nation. A jury of experts, chosen by Cooper-Hewitt, selected finalists and winners in each category. First launched in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards were established to promote excellence and innovation in design
The BBC and Adobe today announced a strategic relationship around the delivery of Web video. By adopting Flash Player software, the BBC will make its free service for downloading TV content—BBC iPlayer—available over the Internet. BBC iPlayer is cross platform, available for Macintosh, Linux and Windows.
The strategic relationship will also allow the BBC to provide a single consistent user experience for the majority of streamed video and audio content on their Web site.
To read the full release, please visit:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200710/101507adobebbc.html
As part of Adobe’s ongoing commitment to the Web developer community, Adobe will host a series of FREE ActionScript 3.0 training sessions starting in October and continuing through 2008. The trainings, led by Colin Moock, will be an intensive, full day session designed for developers worldwide who use Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR extensions and who have beginner to intermediate level programming skills. He will cover topics such as object-oriented programming, classes, objects, variables, methods, packages, conditionals, loops, operators, functions, error handling, event handling, display programming, compiling, and running programis.
The tour kicks off in San Francisco on October 27. From there, it will reach nine cities worldwide including Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and major design markets in Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information or to register for a session in your city, please visit http://www.adobeas3tour.com.
Sessions are expected to fill up quickly, so be sure to sign up soon!
Designer Meg Richardson has reason to celebrate. She was recently announced as the winner of the Adobe Stock Photos "Take Creative License" contest, a stock imagery mashup competition. Judges narrowed submissions into the top 12 mashups, and from there chose Meg's "clean" and "beautiful" design as the winner. Contest participants pieced together images from the Adobe Stock Photos library to create an advertisement promoting the royalty-free image service. Compatible with the Adobe arsenal of tools, Adobe Stock Photos houses over one million images from some of the world’s top collections.
Titled "Let your imagination soar," Meg's winning design plays upon the theme of unbridled creativity. Her ad appears in this month's Graphic Design: USA on newsstands now, and online at http://www.adobestockphotosentertowin.com/gallery/mashup.aspx
Adobe today announced that Showtime Networks Inc. has implemented Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition across The Red Group, its in-house creative agency.
After successfully switching to Adobe InDesign software several years ago to produce its print marketing materials, The Red Group’s staff of 80 is currently using the efficient, highly integrated tools in Adobe Creative Suite 3 to design and produce marketing campaigns for the top-rated Showtime original drama series Dexter.
By standardizing on Creative Suite 3, The Red Group joins a community of design firms worldwide that use Adobe products to create integrated, multi-component marketing collateral.
To read the full case study, please visit http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=casestudydetail&casestudyid=345467&loc=en_us
It’s a race to the winners’ circle as Adobe has announced the top 12 finalists in Adobe Stock Photos’ “Take Creative License” contest. Entrants used their creativity to combine and alter images from the Adobe Stock Photos library to create an advertisement for the Stock Photos service.
Check out the 12 most creative and innovative mash-up entries on Adobe Stock Photos Web site and vote for your favorite in a special gallery located here: http://www.adobestockphotosentertowin.com/gallery/mashup.aspx.
Stay tuned: Graphic Design: USA will reveal the winning design in its September issue. You can also log on to the Adobe Stock Photos Web site on Sept. 25 to view the most imaginative and skillful creation in all its mash-up glory.
Our venerable leader, John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe, has just posted a new piece on his blog about Open Source titled “Innovate or Integrate?”
Interested in what he has to say? Check it out here: http://blogs.adobe.com/johnnyl/
Congratulations to the winners of the seventh annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards! On August 2 in a ceremony at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, Adobe honored the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world’s top institutions. Using the latest Adobe products, more than 2,500 students from 30 countries competed in the annual program.
Students were recognized for their achievements in nine categories. To view the winning entries visit, http://www.adobe.com/education/adaa/winners.
Well, we call it Adobe Premiere Express. It has been a mystery to most, because it’s working behind the scenes powering fun experiences like video remixing with music video footage on MTV.com.
Premiere Express is a free, web-based video remix and editing technology that is easy and fun to use. The drag-and-drop interface means you don’t have to be a pro to create something slick. Express users can easily create and edit mash-up style Web videos by combining video clips, music, photos, effects, transitions and titles.
Premiere Express can be found on YouTube, MTV.com and Photobucket. On MTV.com users are able to remix hot artist’s new music videos; YouTube and Photobucket allow users to upload their own videos to remix. To try out the new Premiere Express technology check out these sites:
http://remix.mtv.com/contest.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/ytremixer?turn_on=next
http://www.photobucket.com
Designers and creative pros can unleash their imagination and debut their mash-up skills by participating in the Adobe Systems Incorporated “Take Creative License” contest. Entrants combine, alter or mash-up images available on the Adobe Stock Photos library to create a winning advertisement for the Adobe Stock Photos Service. Entries are judged on outstanding use of mash-up skills. The winning entrant will have their masterpiece published in the September issue of Graphic Design: USA Magazine along with an editorial feature highlighting the designer’s creative process. Entries may be submitted through July 16, 2007.
For contest information and entry forms, please visit: http://www.adobestockphotosentertowin.com/contest/mashup.html
It’s showtime again! Cut & Paste has announced their Call for Entries for this year’s Digital Design Tournament, the live onstage event that pit top emerging digital artists against one another in live battles.
Over the course of several fast-paced, single-elimination rounds, eight designers get whittled down to one. Each contestant will compete with the latest tools including an Apple® MacPro Workstation, Adobe® Creative Suite 3, and a Wacom® Cintiq interactive pen display. A designated theme will guide competitors to create a digital design in each round, as their work is projected in real-time before a live audience. An esteemed judging panel will decide the Jury Prize, while a global webcast will allow onsite and offsite viewers to vote for an Audience Prize online or by SMS.
Cities hosting this year’s events include: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Berlin, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney. Designers who aren’t shy about showcasing their talent and creative process in front of a live audience of peers, recruiters and industry leaders should visit the Cut & Paste website for entry and contest details, at www.cutandpaste.com.
Entries are being accepted now through July 17.
Tonight, Adobe will be honored at the 11th annual Webby Awards in New York City.
Adobe was selected for four People's Voice awards and one Webby award in five categories (see list below). Two awards given to Adobe are being accepted by members of the Adobe.com team. The other three awards will be picked up by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for the Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Creative Minds site.
As a title sponsor of the Webby Awards, Adobe also sponsored the In-Motion video creation contest and an Adobe Vlog-It station at last night's Video Awards After Party. We hope to feature some of the Webby Award winners work on Adobe.com very soon.
Here's the list of the awards:
People’s Voice winner for BEST CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS Website
People’s Voice winner for IT HARDWARE/SOFTWARE category
People’s Voice winner for BEST USE OF ANIMATION OR MOTION GRAPHICS for the Adobe CS2.3 The Creative Mind (Goodby, Silverstein & Partners)
Webby Award & People’s Voice winner for BEST USE OF VIDEO OR MOVING IMAGE for the Adobe CS2.3 The Creative Mind (Goodby, Silverstein & Partners)
Adobe has announced today that InDesign CS3 Server is now available for system integrators, third-party developers and in-house development teams to download. Adobe InDesign Server CS3 is the publishing engine server version of the award-winning InDesign CS3 that can be integrated into customized automated publishing solutions.
If you need to automate professional design, and create things like (but not limited to!) brochures, collateral and catalogs, ads or personalized marketing materials (VDP) a solution powered by InDesign Server is likely to be the answer.
For more details and information about InDesign CS3 Server, and the solutions it can power, visit www.adobe.com/products/indesignserver
Adobe has released an update to Adobe Bridge CS3. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 software and all professional Adobe creative applications, Bridge provides centralized access to project files, applications, and settings, as well as XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.
The update is available through Bridge via the Help menu > Updates and also through Adobe.com. The update includes the following enhancements:
Multilevel Keywords
Organize your keywords into groups and subgroups as deep a hierarchy as you want by using the multilevel support in the keywords panel. Convenient keyboard shortcuts for applying single keywords or parent keywords are now available. Search Advanced options allow for storing hierarchy into the file metadata. In addition, easily import and export keywords using tab delimited file formats.
Improved Cache Management
Control the size of the Bridge cache of thumbnail and metadata information to better improve responsiveness. The cache can also be compacted to improve performance.
Other additions include new preference control over video and audio file previews, improved scrolling and renaming and usability improvements to customized workspaces.
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (the design arm of the Smithsonian) has selected Adobe as this year's winner of its Corporate Achievement award which recognizes a corporation that uses design as a strategic tool of its mission and helps to advance the relationship between design and quality of life.
Cooper-Hewitt is one of the most prestigious design award competitions in the world and being selected is quite an honor. Winners for 2006 and 2005, respectively, were Nike and Patagonia. The presentation to award winners will take place in New York on October 18 during National Design Week.
Read what they had to say about Adobe on the Cooper-Hewitt website.
The National Design Awards were conceived in 1997 by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. First launched at the White House in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement. The Awards are truly national in scope—nominations for the 2007 Awards were solicited from a committee of more than 800 leading designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures, and corporate leaders from every state in the nation. Reflecting the ever-growing scope of design, the Awards program has expanded this year to include three new categories—landscape design, interior design, and design mind—for a total of 10 awards.
Concerned with color consistency? Adobe just posted a new color management module (CMM) on Adobe.com as a free download at http://www.adobe.com/downloads/. The move is the latest in our effort to advance open, vendor-neutral color management systems.
The new Adobe CMM is based on the latest ICC (International Color Consortium) profile format, version 4, and it helps achieve more consistent color workflows across platforms since it enables Windows XP users to also use ICC version 4 profiles. Users can now download the CMM component for their applications that support selection of third-party CMMs, and for custom software built to access Adobe CMM directly.
Adobe’s kuler technology ranks #1 for the third week in a row on the MoMB (Museum of Modern Betas), an independent web site that posts weekly rankings of the webosphere’s hottest web-based beta applications. http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/hot-100
Since Adobe released this color centric rich internet application last November, it’s received rave reviews, won several industry awards, and was recently released as a dashboard widget for Mac OS X in response to customer demand. kuler is being used by people who want to quickly create harmonious color themes and share them over the Web.
More information about kuler is available on Adobe labs at http://kuler.adobe.com.
If you are going to NAB and want to see the new Adobe Creative Suite 3 video solutions at an exclusive event, here's your chance. Please respond to receive an invitation.
Come take creative license and celebrate with the NAB community at this special Adobe Video event. See Adobe unveil its new Adobe Creative Suite® CS3 video solutions with customers, partners, and the media.
Adobe Creative License Launch Event
Monday, April 16th
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Adobe made four announcements today in conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas. Here's a brief summary of the announcements. If you want more information, please check the press releases at www.adobe.com/pressroom
Adobe Unveils Next Generation Internet Video Solution
The Adobe Media Player expands Adobe’s Internet video solutions, adding to an emerging ecosystem that enables new ways to distribute and monetize media, while helping viewers discover and view high-quality content both online and offline. Leveraging Adobe’s Emmy Award winning Flash architecture, this desktop application delivers more engaging video experiences to viewers while offering content publishers new abilities to distribute, track and build businesses around their media assets. A preview of the new player will be shown during NAB, April 16 - 19 (Booth SL 3220).
Adobe Delivers Previews of Pro Video Tools
Customers will be able to test free public previews of Adobe Premiere® Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects® CS3 Professional and Adobe Soundbooth™ CS3 software on Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/. The final shipping releases will be available worldwide in the third quarter of 2007. These products are components of the recently announced Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium.
Adobe Announces Flash Media Solution Provider Program
The new program is a consortium of professional streaming solution providers and publishers that offer consulting and implementation services for the Adobe Flash® Media Server. FMSP partner services include on-site set up, encoding, hosting, reporting and promotion. Now organizations can leverage professional service providers who specialize in delivering live and on-demand Flash streaming solutions to expedite critical streaming projects.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium Wins in Broadcasting
In support of it's Creative Desktop Initiative, the BBC has selected Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium as its preferred solution for PC-based nonlinear editing and post-production. Production Premium CS3 is will be used to edit and deliver content across the BBC’s broadcast channels and websites. Beginning in April 2007, the BBC will start rolling out Adobe Premiere® Pro CS2 to PC users within the organization, allowing them to take advantage of the powerful non-linear editing tool. The organization will move to Production Premium CS3 in summer 2007 when the solution ships.
With 12 new stand-alone applications and 6 new suites, Adobe Creative Suite 3 can be overwhelming at first glance. To help customers learn more about the products and various tips and tricks, Adobe will host a series of live and online product demonstrations over the next six months that will include:
CS3: The Creative License Conference
A series of conferences that include a two-day event in Los Angeles, June 19-20, and another in New York, June 25-26, where attendees will be immersed into an innovative environment to learn how to use the new CS3 products in their workflow. For a calendar and to register, users please visit www.adobecs3conference.com.
Adobe will also be hosting a series of one-day conferences offered across the country May 16 through June 14, 2007, to provide educational information and demos of the new Creative Suite family. For a calendar and to register, please visit www.adobecs3conference.com/oneday.
CS3: The Creative License Podcast series
A weekly podcast series, including a monthly interview with Adobe’s head of creative solutions, Johnny Loiacono, to discuss hot topics and trends in the marketplace. New podcast episodes will be available weekly at www.creativesuitepodcast.com.
CS3: The Creative License eSeminar Series
A variety of live online seminar sessions designed for users to learn about specific CS3 applications specific to design, print, video, web and photography. The sessions will be archived and fully accessible on Adobe’s web site for people who are not able to attend the live events. For a calendar of what’s being presented or to register for a session people should go to www.adobe.com/go/cs3eseminars.
The Adobe Creative Suite 3 product line is a revolutionary offering of tightly integrated, industry-leading design and development tools for all facets of print, web, mobile, interactive, film, and video production. For more information about CS3 visit www.adobe.com/creativelicense.
Adobe partners and developers who work with metadata should check out Adobe Labs for a new update of Adobe’s XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) technology available for immediate download. The source code for the new Adobe XMP 4.1 has been released under the same open source license as its previous versions, reinforcing the company’s openness to platform technology such as metadata.
This new update, the Adobe XMP 4.1, provides new libraries for developers to read, write and update XMP in popular image, document and video file formats including: JPEG, PSD, TIFF, AVI, WAV, MPEG, MP3, MOV, INDD, PS, EPS and PNG. In addition, the rewritten XMP 4.1 libraries have been optimized into two major components, the XMP Core and the XMP Files.
The XMP Core enables the parsing, manipulating and serializing of XMP data, and the XMP Files enables the reading, rewriting, and injecting serialized XMP into the multiple file formats. The XMP Files can be thought of as a "file I/O" component for reading and writing the metadata that is manipulated by the XMP Core component.
Supported development environments for Adobe’s XMP 4.1 are: XCode 2.3 for Macintosh universal binaries, Visual Studio 2005 (VC8) for Windows, and Eclipse 3.x on any available platform. The XMP Core is available as C++ and Java sources with project files for the Macintosh, Windows and Linux platform. A Java version of XMP Files is under consideration for a future update.
This release candidate will be compatible with the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 3 being unveiled March 27,2007. Developers can access the new release now at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/xmptoolkit/.
Since we can’t invite everyone to New York for our launch event on March 27, we’ve come up with two options to see Creative Suite live from wherever you live.
Watch the CS3 launch event live on the web
Adobe will be webcasting live from New York City an event to celebrate our milestone launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3 on March 27, 2007 at 3:30 p.m. EDT at http://www.adobe.com/go/cs3launch.
UPDATE: Tomorrow's CS3 launch event is invitation only and we've been told it's full. We cannot invite any additional attendees. If you're interested in seeing what all the buzz is about, we encourage everyone to log into the webcast at 3:30 pm ET: www.adobe.com/go/cs3launch
See Adobe Creative Suite 3 live at select Apple Stores
We've teamed up with Apple to present CS3 at Apple stores in several major cities the day after we announce. If you want to see how CS3 performs on the latest Intel-based hardware from Apple, here are the details.
Apple Store, San Francisco
Wednesday, March 28
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Apple Store, SoHo, New York
Wednesday, March 28
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Wednesday, March 28
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Apple Store, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Wednesday, March 28
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 29
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Apple Store, Regent Street, London, UK
Wednesday, March 28
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 29
6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
If you are not sure where these Apple stores are, here's a helpful link: http://www.apple.com/retail/
The Apple store events are first come first served, so arrive early for prime seating.
The wait is nearly over! We can now confirm that Adobe Creative Suite 3 will be announced March 27, 2007. The company is celebrating the launch at an event in New York City that will be webcast live at 3:30pm ET. During the webcast, Adobe will reveal the features and suite configurations that make this the largest software release in Adobe's 25 year history.
Details on how to view the webcast will be available on Adobe.com later this week.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We are announcing Creative Suite 3 on March 27th. However, the software will not ship until later in Spring 2007.
You’ve probably heard the buzz about Adobe bringing Photoshop online...Is Adobe really planning to put its pro-tools into an online services model?
Bringing Photoshop technology online would simply be an extension of our strategy to deliver the right Photoshop for Adobe’s diverse user base. And by Photoshop "branded" we don't mean the professional version of Photoshop - at least not initially. A Photoshop technology online offering would at first, most likely, be targeted at the consumer market.
This is a pretty logical next step for us when you consider the Photoshop product portfolio today. It includes: our flagship product Photoshop CS2, for creative professionals; the free Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition, which meets the needs of the casual photographer; Adobe Photoshop Elements with editing and sharing options for photography enthusiasts; and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which provides a complete digital darkroom for professional and serious amateur photographers.
With the rise of social networking and media sharing sites, it’s clear that consumers want access to online experiences and need the help of trusted tools to keep content fresh and compelling. That's why we recently announced a partnership with Photobucket and digital video editing. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200702/022107Photobucket.html
So look out for more announcements, like the one with our friends at Photobucket, as we expand the reach of our video and digital imaging technologies to new online communities.
Visit John Nack’s blog for another view from product management: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/03/so_whats_this_a.html
Adobe is pioneering a new way to deliver its industry leading creative software technologies online, with the launch of its web-based video remix and editing technology. Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership today to integrate Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology directly into the Photobucket user experience, giving 35 million Photobucket users direct, free access to world-class digital video editing tools. These free services are expected to be driven by advertising revenue - and by offering customers simple upgrade paths to its renowned Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop® Elements software, both market leaders in the home digital video and photo editing space.
No experience is required for Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology. It’s an easy-to-use video editor that eliminates the intimidation factor often associated with video editing and allows consumers the creative freedom to infuse personality and dramatic impact into their stories before releasing them to a broader online audience. Users can drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips, without having to deal with time-consuming downloads or platform issues.
Delivered as a lightweight Adobe Flash® application and built using Adobe Flex™ software, Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology is accessible to the more than 700 million personal computers that today support Adobe Flash Player software. The new video editing capabilities in Photobucket are initially available via limited public beta to Photobucket Pro users, and will be available for free to Photobucket’s entire user base of 35 million members by early March 2007.
What partnerships and breakthrough user experiences are in store for consumers? Stay tuned in the coming months for future announcements with Internet companies and media properties…
There is a new FAQ posted to Adobe.com highlighting Adobe product support for Windows Vista. The marketing team plans to keep this document updated with the latest information. The full FAQ can be found as a PDF here: http://www.adobe.com/go/adobevista
A few questions from the FAQ are included below.
Q. Will Adobe support the new Windows Vista operating system?
A. As a leading developer for Microsoft® Windows®, Adobe has a long track record of
supporting the latest version of the Windows operating system. Adobe is excited about the
new Windows Vista operating system and has been working closely with Microsoft to test
Adobe products on prerelease editions of this operating system. Now that Windows Vista is
publicly available, Adobe is conducting final testing of many of its products to:
• Identify and document issues with current versions of its software.
• Develop free patches for some of Adobe’s currently available products, so they run smoothly
on Windows Vista.
• Verify that upcoming releases of Adobe’s products meet rigorous standards of quality and
fully support Windows Vista.
Q. Do current versions of Adobe products support Windows Vista?
A. All Adobe products available as of January 30, 2007 were released before Windows Vista
became publicly available and so have not been fully designed for or tested on this new
operating system. However, many of those products run under Window Vista with minimal
issues. To find out more about how different Adobe products work with Windows Vista,
please see specific product sections later in this FAQ.
The Adobe Creative Solutions PR team now has a blog! It's no secret that the next version of Adobe Creative Suite will be launched in Spring 2007 and this blog will keep everyone up to date of the events, announcements and sneak-peeks that will keep us busy until CS3 arrives...and beyond.
We'll also use this blog to keep you informed of all the other cool stuff that goes on in the Creative Solutions world - such the recently-introduced Photoshop Lightroom or kuler, Adobe's web-hosted color exploration tool.
Hope you enjoy the blog and we look forward to your feedback.
Best
The Creative Solutions PR Team
Russell Brady - Director
Cara Cassidy - Adobe Creative Suite
Denise Styerwalt - Adobe Creative Suite
Cari Gushiken - Photoshop Family
Sandra Nakama - Macromedia Studio and Adobe Production Studio
Stefan Offermann - Adobe Device Central and mobile solutions